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Professor Robert Heyderman

Director
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Professor David Goldblatt

Co-Director

Mr Steven Kuo

Research Unit Manager
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Mr Rodrick Sambakunsi

MPRU Public Engagement Manager
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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

Research Fellow in Infectious Disease Modelling

Dr Caroline Weight

Research Associate in Molecular Microbiology

Dr Andrea Gori

Research Associate in Bacterial 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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Dr Kwambana-Adams and Dr Weight to participate in the Leadership in Action Programme

06 Mar 2020

MPRU sponsoring 2 places on Afro-ADVAC 2020

21 Feb 2020
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State-of-the-art in the pneumococcal field published in Pneumonia

11 Feb 2020

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Workshop on Conducting Microbiome Research in Low and Middle-Income Countries

Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust, Blantyre, Malawi
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2020

MPRU Leadership Ethics Workshop 2020

University College London

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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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