Infection Medicine, University of Edinburgh

Many congratulations to our very own Dr Samantha Griffiths for winning the CMVM (BioQuarter) Postdoc Award for her outstanding public engagement work! What a great achievement and we are so proud of you! 👏 In this short video, Sam talks about what it means to her to win this award and why public engagement is important to her:

Dr Samantha Griffiths wins CMVM Postdoc Award: Public Engagement Congratulations to Dr Samantha Griffiths for winning the CMVM (BioQuarter) Postdoc Award: Puclic Engagement.

Dr Samantha Griffiths is one of the scientists featured in the "Ask the Scientist" community engagement event organised by the Edinburgh local charity Thistle Foundation. In a series of videos, Sam answers questions the community submitted about COVID19. Watch the videos here:

Ask the scientists - Covid Q&A In March 2021, we invited you to submit your questions about Covid-19 to local scientists from the Edinburgh Bioquarter.

Today we celebrate the UN's International Day of Women and Girls in Science with this picture of some of our own female scientists 👩‍🔬. They work hard to make a difference with their research into infectious diseases, including COVID19. We are so proud of you!👏

It is getting festive at Infection Medicine today. Everyone enjoyed some good cheer from this year's virtual Christmas party and live quiz! 🥳

UPCOMING Infection Medicine Seminar-"Can HCV Infection be Eliminated by Direct-Acting Antiviral Therapies?"

Prof John McLauchlan from the Centre for Virus Research at the University of Glasgow will be giving this presentation on Mon 7 Dec at 12pm.

Hosted by Dr Richard Sloan.

All details at:

Infection Medicine Seminar Series Infection Medicine seminars take place fortnightly on Mondays 12.00 - 13.00 pm.

New exciting PhD opportunities at Infection Medicine are now accepting applications. Start your scientific career with our excellent scientists! Find out more at: https://www.ed.ac.uk/infection-medicine/news-events/current-news/new-phd-positions-at-infection-medicine

Dr Samantha Griffiths' “Meet Our Scientist” sessions at Lasswade High School yesterday were a great success! The pupils were over the moon to meet a real scientist. Lots of enthusiastic questions about Covid19 and what it’s like to be a scientist. 👩‍🔬 Well done Sam!

Our online Infection Medicine seminar on Mon 28 Sept will be given by Prof Richard Randall from the University of St Andrews. His talk is on Paramyxoviruses, interferon and within host RNA virus persistence. Details at:

Infection Medicine Seminar Series Infection Medicine seminars take place fortnightly on Mondays 12.00 - 13.00 pm.

Prof Jurgen Haas and Dr Samantha Griffiths are proud contributors to the upcoming Midlothian Science Festival. Look forward to engaging with some schools! 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬

Click for programme https://edin.ac/3jRtdKU

We are proud to be one of the group of 37 partners of the CAREvsCOVID consortium jointly fighting the pandemic:

Scottish universities at forefront of €78 million anti-Covid effort The Universities of Dundee and Edinburgh are playing key roles in a €77.7 million pan-European consortium seeking to accelerate the development of therapies for Covid-19 and future coronaviruses.

Did you catch Prof Jürgen Haas on Saturday’s Good Morning Scotland program talking about drugs for COVID-19? You can listen to it again here (0:25:20 - 0:33:33):

Good Morning Scotland - 11/07/2020 - BBC Sounds The nation's morning news programme.