Professor Neil Gow's lab is within the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology, one of the largest groupings in the field with more than 120 researchers. 

Neil was the co-founder and former co-director of the MRC-CMM, that relocated to Exeter in 2018, and his his laboratory focusses on how we can use studies of the outer cell walls of medically important fungi to generate much needs drugs, diagnostics and immune therapies. 

Despite being relatively unpopularised as a branch of infectious disease biology, the most recent estimate of global annual attributable deaths due to fungal pathogens is around 2.5 million - more than due to HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, breast or prostate cancer. 

Despite this, we have few classes of antifungals, no vaccines and a limited array of diagnostics to deal with this major health care challenge. 

Professor Gow will will explore how dynamic changes in the wall influence drug efficacy and the ability of the immune system to recognise it and induce appropriate immune responses.  Professor Gow is current President of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology.

This event would appeal to adults, university students and final year school science students. 

This event is free to attend and will take place via Zoom. Advance registration is essential through the link at the top of the page. 

If you have any accessibility requirements, please let me know during your booking, and we will do what we can to accommodate your needs. 

For event queries, please contact Professor Jennifer Littlechild at J.A.Littlechild@exeter.ac.uk

For booking and website queries, contact Ellie Barrand at regions@rsb.org.uk or on 020 3925 3444.