Trinity term 2022 lecture with Professor Daniel Wilson
Part of the Rewley House Lecture Series
Professor Daniel Wilson summarises how data science has been used during the COVID-19 pandemic, spanning vaccine design, clinical trials, surveillance and policy advice, and highlighting the identification of risk factors for disease.
Daniel discussed his research group’s work in the COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative, which has identified dozens of genes involved in the risk of catching SARS-CoV-2 and suffering severe COVID-19, and his collaborations with Public Health England and UK Biobank – one of the world’s largest cohorts for biomedical research who contributed the raw data that powered such insights.
About the speaker
Daniel Wilson is Director of Studies in Data Science and an Associate Professor at the Department for Continuing Education. He oversees and plans the Department’s course offerings in Data Science, including award-bearing courses, face-to-face classes and online programmes. Danny leads a research group in Infectious Diseases and Population Genomics at the Big Data Institute, Oxford Population Health, supported by the Wellcome Trust and Robertson Foundation. He is a collaborator with the Modernising Medical Microbiology consortium based at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, and Associate Member of the Department of Statistics. He has been named a Highly Cited Researcher four years running.
