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
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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
Department Staff
The Revd Professor Robert Gilbert
Professor Richard Cornall
Professor John Stein
Professor Teresa Thurston
Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe
Professor Gero Miesenböck
Professor Chris Garland
Dr Dominic Alonzi
Professor Peter Sullivan
Professor Stephen Goodwin
Professor Michael Goldacre
Dr Lauren Phillips
Professor Sir Adrian Hill KBE
Professor Quentin Sattentau
