Professor Maheshi Ramasamy

Subject: Medicine and Biomedical Science

Department: Paediatrics

College appointment: Florey Lecturer and Fellow by Special Election

Academic position: Professor of Infection and Vaccinology

Background

Maheshi is originally from Sri Lanka and came to the UK to study medicine at Christ’s College, Cambridge on a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship. She trained as a junior doctor in Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine in Oxford, London and Australia and obtained a DPhil from Wadham College, Oxford.

She is a practising Consultant Physician at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Deputy Director of the Graduate Entry Medicine course at Oxford. In her role as Florey Lecturer, Maheshi acts as the Lead Tutor for Graduate medical students at Magdalen College with overall responsibility for admissions, teaching and pastoral support of students. She has been a Fellow by Special Election at Magdalen since 2020.

Research

As a Clinician Scientist at the Oxford Vaccine Group, Maheshi’s research focuses on developing novel vaccines for emerging pathogens including Lassa fever virus and invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella. She has a particular interest in controlled human infection models, both as a tool to understand the pathophysiology of disease and to inform vaccine design.

She leads the UK National Immunisation Schedule Evaluation Consortium and is a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), advising the UK Department of Health and Social Care on immunisation policy. 

Selected publications:

Please go to https://www.ovg.ox.ac.uk/team/maheshi-ramasamy

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