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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COVID-19 mortality in Africa and Asia - Authors' reply.
Journal article
Bejon P. et al, (2025), Lancet Infect Dis