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Global Handwashing Day is dedicated to increasing awareness about the importance of hand hygiene, especially through handwashing with soap as an easy, effective, and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives.

Shirin Ahmadi has recently won the poster competition at the Venoms and Toxing 2020 virtual conference, demonstrating a schematic overview of the cross-panning phage display strategy that she implemented for discovering broadly-binding monoclonal antibodies.

Schistosomiasis is a Neglected Tropical Disease of profound medical and veterinary importance across many parts of the world, with the greatest human burden within sub-Saharan Africa.

With over 120 small grants funded in 2020, let's take a look at the amazing projects being undertaken by our awardees.

Evidence suggests that microbial infections are associated with the production of specific volatile organic compounds (VOCs), causing the release of distinct odours. This area of research has led to interest in using volatiles as biomarkers of infectious diseases, such as cholera, malaria and now COVID-19.