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Who we are

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Professor Robert Heyderman

Director
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Professor David Goldblatt

Co-Director

Dr Ifedayo Adetifa

MPRU Africa Co-Director

Mr Steven Kuo

Research Unit Manager
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Mr Rodrick Sambakunsi

MPRU Public Engagement Manager
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Dr Brenda Kwambana-Adams

Research Associate in Bacterial Pathogenesis and Genomics

Dr Caroline Weight

Research Associate in Molecular Microbiology

Dr Andrea Gori

Research Associate in Bacterial Genomics
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Dr Asia-Sophia Wolf

Research Associate in Mucosal and Vaccine Immunology
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Dr John Ojal

Research Fellow in Infectious Disease Modelling
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Dr Elizabeth Chan

Research Associate in Bacterial Pathogenesis and Genomics

Modupeh Betts

PhD Student

Chikondi Peno

PhD Student

Akuzike Kalizang'oma

PhD Student

Deus Thindwa

PhD Student

Mr Todd Swarthout

Senior Research Fellow - Epidemiology; Principal Investigator
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Recent News and Upcoming Events

News

MPRU welcomes Dr Ifedayo Adetifa as new MPRU Co-Director Africa region

29 Sep 2020

HIC-VAC pump priming enhancement award granted to Dr Caroline Weight

13 Aug 2020

Paper on within host-evolution of pneumococci published in Nature Communications

13 Jul 2020

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Akuzike Kalizang'oma internal seminar talk

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MPRU Conference 2020

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National Institute for Health Research

This research was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) (16/136/46) using UK aid from the UK Government to support global health research. The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the UK Department of Health and Social Care.
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