Researching meningitis: the latest progress

November 2024

Knowledge, and its application, is transformative in the fight to defeat meningitis, which is why we strive to connect people and research to drive action, so lives are saved.  

From the development and improvement of vaccines, diagnostics and treatments, to understanding the lifelong impact of meningitis and how people can be supported to have the best possible life outcomes, research plays a leading role.  

Playing our part in funding and supporting research on meningitis 

Across the world, projects are underway all year round and we are proud to have played our part in funding, supporting and enabling groundbreaking research projects since we were founded in 1989.  

Alongside having invested over £19.5 million in vital scientific research, we also bring together the world’s leading scientific and medical experts at our Meningitis Spotlight Session and biennial conference.  

These events are developed with the aim of creating the world’s leading forum for meningitis research, where the latest advances and challenges are explored in depth.  

The first issue of Researching meningitis: the latest progress 

We know our supporters, including those whose lives have been directly affected by meningitis, want to know how research is working towards leaving no family behind in the effort to defeat meningitis. 

So, to support this aim, we are starting an occasional series that brings together a summary of the latest research findings. Called Researching meningitis: the latest progress, in this first issue you can read about:  

  • How the vaccine which protects against the type of meningococcal meningitis, called Men B, could also unlock protection against gonorrhoea.
  • How protection against pneumococcal meningitis is expanding.
  • What antimicrobial resistance could mean for the treatment of bacterial meningitis.
  • What could enable improved rapid diagnosis of meningitis. 
  • Developments in improving healthcare pathways and symptom recognition. 
  • Progress in understanding the long-term effects of bacterial meningitis.  
Read issue 1 of Researching meningitis: the latest progress now.