Peter Horby
Sir Peter William Horby is a British physician, epidemiologist, Moh Family Foundation Professor of Emerging Infections and Global Health, and Director of the Pandemic Sciences Institute at the University of Oxford. He is the founder, and former director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Hanoi, Vietnam which was founded in 2006. In 2014, Horby established the Epidemic Research Group Oxford (ERGO). ERGO incorporates a number of international projects such as the European Commission funded PREPARE, the African coaLition for Epidemic Research, Response and Training (ALERRT), and the International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC). Since 2016, Horby has been chair and executive director of ISARIC.Horby specialises in emerging and epidemic infectious diseases. He is the co-chief investigator of the RECOVERY Trial into drugs for COVID-19 (the largest clinical trial of COVID-19 in the world) alongside Martin Landray. In June 2020, he gave a statement at 10 Downing Street alongside the Prime Minister and Chief Scientific Adviser announcing the first positive trial results of the first life-saving COVID-19 drug, Dexamethasone. He is the primary author on the published preliminary report.
From 2020 to 2022, Horby was one of the attendees of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) He is the chair of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG).
He was knighted in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to medical research and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2024. Provided by Wikipedia
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13by Janet T. Scott, Raman Sharma, Luke W. Meredith, Jake Dunning, Catrin E. Moore, Foday Sahr, Steve Ward, Ian Goodfellow, Peter HorbyGet full text
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14by Abha Saxena, Peter Horby, John Amuasi, Nic Aagaard, Johannes Köhler, Ehsan Shamsi Gooshki, Emmanuelle Denis, Andreas A. Reis, the ALERRT-WHO Workshop, Raffaella RavinettoGet full text
Published 2019-05-01
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15by Louise Sigfrid, Chelsea Perfect, Amanda Rojek, Kajsa-Stina Longuere, Sam Lipworth, Eli Harriss, James Lee, Alex Salam, Gail Carson, Herman Goossens, Peter HorbyGet full text
Published 2019-09-01
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16by Hoang Quoc Cuong, Nguyen Tran Hien, Tran Nhu Duong, Tran Vu Phong, Nguyen Nhat Cam, Jeremy Farrar, Vu Sinh Nam, Khoa T D Thai, Peter HorbyGet full text
Published 2011-09-01
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19by Louise Sigfrid, Catrin Moore, Alex P. Salam, Nicola Maayan, Candyce Hamel, Chantelle Garritty, Vittoria Lutje, Brian Buckley, Karla Soares-Weiser, Rachel Marshall, Mike Clarke, Peter HorbyGet full text
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