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Department of Pathology

 

Here following media coverage on pandemic preparedness?

There will be more pandemics - the only question is when. We need to make sure the systems we build in preparation for the next pandemic are still working when it comes, whether that is in a year, five years, ten years, or a hundred years. If you want to read more, look at this article for further detail on building surge capacity in diagnostic services. I am happy to be contacted by people in the media or working in policy to discuss these broader issues, or additional detail of diagnostic plans. Please understand that I receive a lot of mail and sadly cannot always reply to everything I receive from members of the public.

Research Interests (what I normally do!)

I am a clinical academic. My research interests lie at the interface between mathematics and molecular virology. I work to develop and apply novel signal processing algorithms to viral genetic data, aiming to discover previously unrecognised regions of structural and/or functional importance in viruses. This allows us to understand better the life cycle of these viruses and so focus on how we can disrupt the life cycle and avoid, attenuate or cure disease. As with many virologists I have spent some time working on SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) recently, but I also have interests in flaviviruses (a group of viruses including, amongst others, dengue, Zika, yellow fever and tick-borne encephalitis viruses) and HIV.

I have additional interests in ensuring clinical diagnostic services can cope with additional demand during emergencies, such as pandemics, and in optimising use of clinical diagnostics for patient care.

NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Virology
Hon. Specialty Registrar in Infectious Diseases and Medical Virology
Not available for consultancy

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