A human, a monkey and a cat walk into the clinic... - a podcast by MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research

Find out all about the research being carried out at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR)into HIV, AIDS and related viruses in this episode of the Contagious Thinking podcast on #WorldAIDSday.

Read more on our blog here: http://wp.me/p5DCA6-gP Listen and find out about the HIV/AIDS problem from the clinical, scientific and veterinarian perspective, all from researchers at the CVR.

Here, we speak with Dr Emma Thomson [2 minutes 15], a local infectious diseases clinician and researcher within CVR, about the continued clinical challenged that HIV and AIDS poses; Dr Sam Wilson [24 minutes 06], an MRC research fellow whose work in fundamental HIV virology enables us to understand how our cells fight back are immune to infection; and Professor Margaret Hosie [45 minutes 42], whose research into FIV, the feline analogue of HIV, may be able to give us some insight into how we could develop a vaccine for HIV.

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Edited intro/outro music credit: 'Take me higher' by 'Jahzzar'. freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/…Me_Higher_1626 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

Edited voiceover music credit: “Mountain Bells” by Lobo Loco from the album “Moments” freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loc…Mountain_Bells

Recorded by Josie Bellhouse and produced by Josie Bellhouse and Connor Bamford.

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