Philip Bejon
Director Modernising Medical Microbiology
I am Director of Modernising Medical Microbiology, co-leading with Sarah Walker. I was previously Director of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, a collaborative Programme formed by the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Wellcome and University of Oxford. I am a clinician with specialist training in infectious disease. I have an interest in the evaluation of vaccines, including malaria, yellow fever and Ebola vaccines. I have undertaken studies of naturally acquired immunity to malaria and human challenge models, and have an interest in bone infection and osteomyelitis.
Recent publications
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Comparative performance of the InBios SCoV-2 DetectTM IgG ELISA and the in-house KWTRP ELISA in detecting SARS-CoV-2 spike IgG antibodies in Kenyan populations
Journal article
Kutima B. et al, (2025), Wellcome Open Research, 9, 349 - 349
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Uncovering the genetic diversity of the malaria parasite antigen MSP2 across Sub-Saharan Africa
Preprint
Zerebinski J. et al, (2025)
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Pf8: an open dataset of Plasmodium falciparum genome variation in 33,325 worldwide samples
Journal article
Abdel Hamid MM. et al, (2025), Wellcome Open Research, 10, 325 - 325
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Establishing laboratory reference ranges for haematological and biochemical blood parameters in adults and children in Kilifi, Kenya
Journal article
Downs LO. et al, (2025), Wellcome Open Research, 10, 312 - 312
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A pragmatic randomized controlled trial of standard care versus corticosteroids plus standard care for treatment of pneumonia in adults admitted to Kenyan hospitals (SONIA)
Journal article
Lucinde R. et al, (2025), Wellcome Open Research, 7, 269 - 269