Pathogen Program
Transforming how the world understands and responds to infectious disease.
Professor Justin O'Grady
Justin O’Grady is the Senior Director, Science Applications for the Pathogen Project at EIT. In his role, he will develop cutting edge technologies to diagnose and control infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance, tackling the most important infectious syndromes and pathogens we face globally.
Justin currently holds an Honorary Professorship at the University of East Anglia and was previously Vice President, Translational Applications at Oxford Nanopore Technologies and Professor of Medical Microbiology at Quadram Institute Bioscience and University of East Anglia. He has a PhD from the University of Galway (Ireland) in Microbiology and has spent his career developing diagnostic technologies for infectious diseases in academia and industry.
Outside of work, Justin loves travelling with family, golf, the gym, football, his dog, Bear, and good food and drink.
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The Pathogen Program is developing an end-to-end diagnostic tool to support the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, starting with respiratory infections and sepsis. A database of global sequencing data will provide the crucial information needed to explain the origin of the pathogen and whether it is resistant to existing treatments. This type of full-stack system will be beneficial in diagnosing disease and supporting pandemic preparedness in the future.
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