Elihu Aranday-Cortes

I studied Veterinary Medicine at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and completed a PhD in Clinical Medicine Research at Imperial College London in conjunction with the Animal Health and Veterinary Research Agency, focusing in bovine tuberculosis.

I am a Research Associate at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research in Prof John McLauchlan’s group, where for the last three years, I have been involved in projects related to innate immune response to viruses as well as virus diversity in hepatitis C (HCV) and dengue virus (DENV).

I have an active role in collaborative studies with the Philippines and Indonesia, both supported by MRC:Newton Funding, in which the main objective is to correlate disease severity in DENV-infected patients, who have well-defined clinical outcomes, with host transcriptomic and proteomic changes observed in the periphery. This will allow us to identify candidate virological and/or host biomarkers for the development of diagnostic platforms that predict progression to severe disease.