Nicholas James Loman (born February 1979) was co-founder of the
Gamer Network with his brother Rupert, which they started under the name Eurogamer Network in 1999.
Nick left the business in 2004 to pursue a career in medicine.
Loman studied medicine at
Queen Mary University of London
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. He undertook an intercalated BSc degree in Pathology (Infection & Immunity) from
Imperial College in 2001 and graduated in Medicine from
Queen Mary University of London
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in 2004. He then spent some time as junior doctor, before working as a bioinformatician in
Mark Pallen's research group at the
University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a Public university, public research university located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingha ...
from 2007 to 2012, where gained a PhD in ''Comparative Bacterial Genomics''. On completing his thesis, Loman developed an interest in emerging viral infections, using
Nanopore sequencing
Nanopore sequencing is a third generation approach used in the sequencing of biopolymers — specifically, polynucleotides in the form of DNA or RNA.
Using nanopore sequencing, a single molecule of DNA or RNA can be sequenced without the ne ...
to track the spread of
Ebola in the
Western African Ebola virus epidemic
The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in Western Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history. It caused major loss of life and socioeconomic disruption in the region, mainly in Guinea, Liberia and S ...
. During the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identi ...
, he played a key role in establishing bioinformatics workflows for genomic analysis of
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.
Since 2017, Loman has been professor of microbial genomics and bioinformatics at the Institute for Microbiology and Infection at the
University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a Public university, public research university located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingha ...
. He is also a fellow of the
Alan Turing Institute
The Alan Turing Institute is the United Kingdom's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, founded in 2015 and largely funded by the UK government. It is named after Alan Turing, the British mathematician and computing ...
.
References
External links
About · Loman Labs
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British microbiologists
21st-century British medical doctors
Alumni of Queen Mary University of London
Alumni of Imperial College London
Living people
1979 births