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Professor Matthew Fisher

Last updated: 28 October 2022

Biography

Professor Matthew Fisher is an infectious disease epidemiologist with >25 years of experience in the field. He leads a research group in the Imperial College School of Public Health in the Medical Research Council for Global Infectious Disease Outbreak Analysis - GIDA - that focus on genomics methods for understanding microbial species. With a long-standing interest in fungal pathogens and antimicrobial resistance, Matthew holds a fellowship in the Canadian CIFAR Fungal Kingdoms program. He is also the co-director of the Georgina Mace Centre for the Living Planet at Imperial College London. Matthew has been a clarivate 'Highly Cited' Scholar since 2019.

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Imperial College London School of Public Health

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Gilead Scientific

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Defra Air Quality Expert Group

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CIFAR - Fellow

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Gilead Biomedical funding 2018 - 2022