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 , mottoeng = With united powers , established = 1785 – The London Hospital Medical College1843 – St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College1882 – Westfield College1887 – East London College/Queen Mary College , type = Public researc ...

. He undertook an intercalated BSc degree in Pathology (Infection & Immunity) from Imperial College in 2001 and graduated in Medicine from

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

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. During the

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, 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

. 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 ...

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