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Professor Sir Ali Zumla and co-authors from around the world warn that recent United States Agency for International Development funding cuts are already impacting the fight against tuberculosis.

The UCL Division of Infection and Immunity’s Centre for Clinical Microbiology is proud to announce a series of exceptional achievements by our own distinguished Professor, Sir Alimuddin Zumla.

Professors Siobhan Burns and Helen Lachmann have received a Rosetrees grant supported by an MBPhD fellowship from the Royal Free Charity to enhance genetic testing for diagnosing rare systemic autoinflammatory disorders, focusing on functional tests to assess immune cell changes.

A new film celebrating some of the world leading scientists at the UCL Institute of Immunity and Transplantation has been released to mark the third anniversary of the opening of the Pears Building.

Research led by UCL and the Francis Crick Institute has identified the biological mechanisms by which antigens are captured, stored and replaced in lymph nodes after vaccination and how they regulate B cell and antibody responses.

The Pears Building has won a prestigious RIBA Award. This state-of-the-art building is the new home to the laboratories of the Institute of Immunity and Transplantation at UCL.

UCL Pears Building in Hampstead, home to UCL's Institute of Immunity and Transplantation, has secured a prestigious Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) London Award for 2023.

Jesmeen Maimaris, Nathalie Schmidt and Laabiah Wasim report on their experience at the 1st International School on Advanced Immunology in Osaka, Japan. The event took place from November 7-10, 2022.

A new all-oral, shorter treatment regimen for drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is safer and more effective than current options for people with drug resistant TB, according to results from a global trial featuring UCL researchers.

A collaborative project between UCL, Vocal, the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Programme and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, ‘One for All, All for One’ is a comic and film, helping people have conversations about vaccines, community protection and working together in research.

Research led by UCL has highlighted the need to review pneumococcal vaccine programmes in countries throughout the world, after study results from Malawi show the current vaccine schedule does not provide sufficient immunity for children after their first year of life.

Researchers at UCL have been investigating how the skin’s immune system repairs the damage caused by graft-versus-host disease (GvHD).

Luminous artwork created by UCL Emeritus Professor of Cell Pathology, Patrick Riley, depicting the heat emitted by butterflies, will form part of an exhibition at London’s Coningsby Gallery.

Four researchers at UCL have been awarded prestigious EU funding for the next five years for projects in sustainable food, computer science, human rights and liver disease.