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Professor Robert Heyderman

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Professor David Goldblatt

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Mr Steven Kuo

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Dr Asia-Sophia Wolf

Research Associate in Mucosal and Vaccine Immunology
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Dr Brenda Kwambana-Adams

Research Associate in Bacterial Pathogenesis and Genomics
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Dr Elizabeth Chan

Research Associate in Bacterial Pathogenesis and Genomics
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Dr John Ojal

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Dr Caroline Weight

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Research Associate in Bacterial Genomics

Modupeh Betts

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Akuzike Kalizang'oma

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Mr Todd Swarthout

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State-of-the-art in the pneumococcal field published in Pneumonia

11 Feb 2020

MPRU sponsoring 2 places on LSHTM short course on epidemiology

05 Feb 2020

Prof Heyderman made Head of the Research Department of Infection at UCL

03 Feb 2020

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Modupeh Betts internal seminar talk

UCL
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Prof Robert Heyderman internal seminar talk

UCL

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RT @ShamezLadhani: Pneumococcal #vaccine in the UK: babies born from 01 Jan 2020 (including premature infants) will receive only 1… https://t.co/Et9rzWQW7u
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This research was commissioned by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Global Health Research Unit on Mucosal Pathogens using UK aid from the UK Government. The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.
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