A new review article has been published today in the Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis, entitled “Inflammatory Bowel Disease Drugs: A Focus on Autophagy“.  The review, authored by Ms Kirsty Hooper, Dr Peter Barlow, Dr Craig Stevens and Dr Paul Henderson,…

Our new paper has been published by the Journal of Reproductive Immunology entitled ‘Ovine trophoblasts express cathelicidin host defence peptide in response to infection‘.  This is the first study to show that ovine trophoblasts express cathelicidins, but do not upregulate expression of CHDP…

Following golfer Rory McIlroy’s withdrawal from the Olympics in Rio, Dr Peter Barlow was asked to make a media comment to Agence France Presse (AFP).  The statement made was; “While the majority of people who contract Zika virus will have mild…

A new review from Dr Peter Barlow and colleagues has been published which discusses the antimicrobial and antiviral activity of Cationic Host Defence Peptides (CHDP: also known as antimicrobial peptides), against Category A and emerging infections. The article has been…

A new book has been published by Springer Verlag, edited by Dr Richard Epand, entitled “Host Defense Peptides and Their Potential as Therapeutic Agents“.  The book contains a chapter titled “Antiviral Host Defense Peptides” which was authored by Dr Peter Barlow…

A new paper (Storrie et al.) has been published in the journal PLoS One, which characterises the pathways involved in the inflammation that is induced by the abortifacient emerging pathogen, Waddlia chondrophila.  W.chondrophila is an organism that shares many similarities…

An important new study, published in The Lancet, has indicated that there may be a causal link between Zika virus infection and Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) during an outbreak in French Polynesia in 2013-14.  Peter was asked to offer comment on the study…

Peter was asked to provide a comment on the potential link between Zika virus and Guillain-Barré syndrome to the Science Media Centre via the British Society for Immunology.  The full statement is below; Dr Peter Barlow, British Society for Immunology spokesperson and Reader…

Peter conducted an interview with Voice of America News on the recent discovery of antibiotic resistant bacteria in China and Malaysia. The full interview and article can be found here

Peter was interviewed today on Sky News by presenter Kay Burley on the recent discovery of strains of Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumonia, that possess the resistance gene MCR-1, rendering them resistant to the antibiotic Colistin. In the interview, Peter called for…