Nicola Stonehouse: An “unusual” start towards a professorship in picornaviruses - a podcast by MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research

Prof Nic Stonehouse from the University of Leeds talks to us about her career and how the right mentorship led her to a professorship studying picornaviruses. She also tells us about the exciting projects currently being developed in her lab looking at the replication of foot-and-mouth disease virus and the develop of empty viral capsids as potential vaccine candidates for poliovirus and enterovirus 71.

Research in the Stonehouse group spans virology and RNA biology, applying novel approaches to the study of virus replication and assembly in three main research areas: 1) Picornaviral replication, 2) Design of novel virus-like particle vaccine; and 3)delivery of RNA aptamers into the skin as potential novel therapeutics.

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Featuring: Prof Nicola Stonehouse, Dr Rute Pinto and Dr Patawee Asamaphan
Editing: Rute Pinto
Music: Day Trips by Ketsa

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