York Biotech Campus has welcomed the city’s university to the leading hub for regional bioscience development.
Space has been taken on the site to conduct research that aims to control mosquito-borne disease. The University of York will occupy 2,750 sq ft of space for the research project, which includes two controlled-environment rooms and ancillary space.
Vector-borne disease – diseases that are transmitted by insects such as mosquitos and ticks – represent 17 per cent of all infectious diseases worldwide, and very few have effective vaccines. To provide new methods for controlling mosquito-borne diseases, academics will be conducting research into reducing the size of the mosquito population that transmits them, and also ways to make mosquitoes less able to transmit disease.
