Overcoming the “Ugly step-sister of medicine” label of diagnostics
A review of the McGill summer institute’s course in Global Health Diagnostics
Vera Unwin
Vera Unwin gained her Bsc (Hons) in Biomedical sciences (University of Dundee), before completing her MSc in Medical Parasitology (LSHTM) and gaining exciting field experience working in the Amazon, Brazil. After working in the malaria vaccine group at the Jenner Institute (University of Oxford), she moved to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to work on filarial nematode cell lines and then Mycobacterium tuberculosis risk factors. She is currently doing a PhD at the LSTM developing and evaluating diagnostics for malaria elimination settings.
Latest posts by Vera Unwin (see all)
- Merry Christmas from Bugbitten! - 23rd December 2019
- A malaria elimination catch up- Algeria leads the way - 9th August 2019
- Why find the needle in the haystack? - 10th May 2019
Could carbamate insecticides save the day?
A field-based study investigates the tenet that insecticide resistance within a mosquito population may fall if the insecticide is replaced by one with a… Read more »
The AGS-v-vaccine: a magic bullet for mosquito-transmitted infections?
Could a new anti-saliva vaccine protect against multiple mosquito-borne diseases? The Phase I clinical trials have just begun...
Merry Christmas from BugBitten
Mosquitoes suit up in war against malaria
Anopheles mosquitoes have made their move, donning a thicker armour against insecticide- now what’s ours?
The changing landscape of malaria diagnostics
Toward elimination As many malaria control programs progress towards elimination, more diligent surveillance and monitoring programmes become the focus of… Read more »
Mysterious Zika virus sweeps over Latin America and beyond
Zika disease has exploded in the Latin Americas following an outbreak in Brazil last year. Although not lethal, there is evidence of an association between the… Read more »
Merry Christmas from Bugbitten!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of us at Bugbitten!
The indirect complications of the Ebola crisis and its impact on malaria control
February 2014 saw the first cases of the Ebola in Guinea, which then spread quickly to nine countries in West Africa and claimed over 11,000 lives. Sierra… Read more »
BSP Spring meeting 2015- from the inside
Last month Liverpool hosted the British Society for Parasitology’s (BSP) 53rd annual spring meeting. Having enjoyed and previously reviewed several of the… Read more »