Infection Medicine

Our profile

Infection Medicine is a multidisciplinary centre, consisting of academic and clinical research groups within the University of Edinburgh working across basic, clinical and translational aspects of infection medicine.

A World Leader

The University of Edinburgh is a world leading centre of research.  It employs over 7000 people across a wide range of academic and supporting roles and comprises 21 Schools, spread across three Colleges, offering over 350 undergraduate and 160 postgraduate courses to more than 20,000 students each year.

The College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine is headed by Professor Moira Whyte and is internationally renowned for research and teaching and benefits from major funding inputs to both buildings and ongoing research.

College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

Infection Medicine

Infection Medicine is part of the School of Biomedical Sciences within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine.  It was founded on the basis of collaboration and cooperation and we have a long history of performing collaborative research projects with centres around the world.  We are a key partner within the Edinburgh Infectious Diseases network.

There are ten research group leaders, a number of whom are also directors and organisers of MSc and undergraduate Honours programmes, and a further 50 research and teaching staff, students and visitors at Little France, with clinical and associated prinicipal investigators based in other University centres, NHS departments and partner organisations working on division-led projects.

Our staff have disciplinary backgrounds in genomics, virology and immunology, clinical medicine, chemistry, informatics and engineering.

Edinburgh BioQuarter

We are located within the Edinburgh BioQuarter, adjacent to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh - a 900 bed, state of the art teaching hospital, and the University's Queens Medical Research Institute.

Edinburgh BioQuarter website

Our students

We currently have 20+ PhD and a number of MSc students undertaking studies within IM.