Professor Andy Waters
Editor for Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology
Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre University of Glasgow
The work of our group is directed towards understanding parasites and their interactions with hosts in order to provide a rational basis for disease management and the development of new chemotherapeutic agents or vaccines. Specifically, the group is concerned with the mechanisms of pathogenicity, host cell recognition by parasites, analysis of specific virulence factors, the molecules of pathogens that stimulate or modulate immune responses and the nature of these immune responses, mechanisms of immune regulation and evasion, key surface molecules, identifying and characterising drug targets, elucidating mechanisms of drug resistance, and the design of novel drugs and vaccines to combat parasitic diseases, the study of the interaction of the insect vector with its parasite infection and with man.