Infectious Diseases MScR

The University of Edinburgh

This is an immersive degree, structured as a single laboratory placement where you undertake a year-long research project. It provides an introduction to research methodology for biologists, medics and veterinarians.Our students have previously undertaken projects in the following areas:antibiotic resistance and hospital-acquired infectionsarthropod vector biology and vectorborne diseasesepidemiology and mathematical modelling of animal and human infectionsmolecular diagnosis and point-of-care detection of infectious diseasesimmunology of bacterial and parasitic infections, including major tropical diseases such as malaria, trypanosomiasis and schistosomiasispathogenesis of viral diseases (animal and human, including herpes and HIV)

University of Edinburgh