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Full NameProfessor Samuel McConkey
International Health and Tropical Medicine
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Webpage:rcsi.ie
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- infectious disease and the immune system
- clinical trials
- Medicine
- Public Health
- Infectious diseases
Evaluating new vaccines in clinical trials to measure safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy is what I've been doing in UK, Gambia and Ireland from phase I - phase III, particularly vaccines of relevance for resource-poor areas.
A second stream of my work is about understanding how health systems planners and managers can use scientific results and tools to create good public policy, for migrants, ARV therapy or for malaria control, topics which have been developed by three doctoral students that I have supervised.
References: de Barra E, ... , McConkey SJ, Hill AV. A phase Ia study to assess the safety and immunogenicity of new malaria vaccine candidates ChAd63 CS administered alone and with MVA CS. PLoS One. 2014 Dec 18;9(12):e115161. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115161. eCollection 2014.
SJ McConkey, et al. Enhanced T-cell immunogenicity of plasmid DNA vaccines boosted by recombinant modified vaccinia virus Ankara in humans. Nature Medicine Published online: 25 May 2003, doi:10.1038/nm881