Martin Antonio
Co-Investigator
Martin Antonio is Unit Molecular Biologist and Principal Investigator at the Medical Research Council Unit the Gambia at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Fajara, The Gambia. He serves as the Director, the WHO collaborating Centre for New Vaccines Surveillance and Heads the WHO Regional Reference Laboratory for Invasive Bacterial Diseases (IBD) for West and Central Africa. Martin also holds the position of Honorary Professor at Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (London, UK) and Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London, UK). His research is focused on the leverage of new molecular technologies in diagnosis of tropical infections, investigation of microbial transmission and clinical trials. Martin's group has led and participated in a growing number of large-scale international research projects, serving as the WHO reference laboratory for pneumococcal disease and establishing large disease surveillance platforms for bacterial infections across Africa.