Sophie Yacoub

Sophie is a Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Pandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford. She is a Wellcome Trust Clinical Career Development Fellow and Physician in Infectious Diseases and General Medicine. She holds an honorary consultant appointment at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust in the UK. She has a PhD from Imperial College London and an MSc from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is a member of the Royal College of Physicians in London.

Sophie has >12 years experience in clinical research into dengue in South East Asia. During her time in OUCRU-Vietnam she set up a large translational programme of dengue research, focusing on clinical trials, pathogenesis studies and innovative technology centered on wearable devices, physiological monitoring and utilizing AI for medical imaging and clinical decision support systems. Her work has been supported from funding through Wellcome, UKRI, Academy of Medical sciences, LifeArc, Singapore NMRC and the WHO.

She is now leading an antiviral platform trial for early dengue infections (ADAPT) and is setting up a global platform trial across 10 countries to investigate multiple therapeutics for patients hospitalized with dengue.