About us
My ongoing research focuses on transfusion transmitted infections aiming to improve our understanding of current risks and preparedness for emerging pathogens. I recently led the work in identifying occult hepatitis B infection as a blood transfusion risk in England and have done pioneering work to investigate the undeclared use of pre-exposure prophylaxis among syphilis infected blood donors. I am also engaged in diagnostic and molecular virology, and supporting the investigations into how next generation sequencing could be used to enhance the effectiveness of microbiological screening. This work is done within the Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Genomics to Enhance Microbiology Screening at the University of Oxford (BTRU-GEMS) but aiming to develop further collaborations with the University of Turku.
Our research is funded by