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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Understanding the interaction of upper respiratory tract infection with respiratory syncytial virus and Streptococcus pneumoniae using a human challenge model: a multicenter, randomized controlled study protocol.
Brito-Mutunayagam S. et al, (2025), PLoS One, 20
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Identifying and reducing risks of neurological complications associated with vaccination.
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.
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.
Costa Clemens SA. et al, (2024), Lancet Microbe, 5