Contact information
maheshi.ramasamy@paediatrics.ox.ac.uk
+44 1865 611400
Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, Old Road, Oxford OX3 7LE.
Research groups
Colleges
Maheshi Ramasamy
MA (Cantab), MBBChir (Cantab), MRCP (UK), DPhil (Oxon)
Associate Professor
- Senior Clinical Researcher
- Principal Investigator
Maheshi Ramasamy received her undergraduate medical training at Christ’s College, Cambridge. She subsequently trained as a junior doctor in Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine in Oxford, London and Australia and obtained a DPhil from Wadham College, Oxford. As a clinician scientist based at the Oxford Vaccine Group, Maheshi’s research interest is in adaptive immune responses to vaccines. She leads on early and late phase clinical trials in healthy adults with a particular focus on enteric infections.
She is a Consultant Physician at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the Deputy Director of the Graduate Entry Medicine course at the University of Oxford and a Fellow by Special Election at Magdalen College.
Recent publications
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Identifying and reducing risks of neurological complications associated with vaccination.
Journal article
Handunnetthi L. et al, (2024), Nat Rev Neurol, 20, 541 - 554
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Implementation and adherence to regular asymptomatic testing in a COVID-19 vaccine trial.
Journal article
Williams LR. et al, (2024), Vaccine, 42
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Immunogenicity and safety of beta variant COVID-19 vaccine AZD2816 and AZD1222 (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) as primary-series vaccination for previously unvaccinated adults in Brazil, South Africa, Poland, and the UK: a randomised, partly double-blinded, phase 2/3 non-inferiority immunobridging study.
Journal article
Costa Clemens SA. et al, (2024), Lancet Microbe, 5
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Implementation and Adherence to Regular Asymptomatic Testing in a COVID-19 Vaccine Trial
Preprint
Williams LR. et al, (2024)