Professor Richard Moxon

 

Richard Moxon is Action Research Professor of Paediatrics in the Medical Sciences Division and a Professorial Fellow of Jesus College at the University of Oxford. He has been Head of the Molecular Infectious Diseases Group in the Weatherall Institute of Medicine (1988-2008) and founded the Oxford Vaccine Group in 1993, a vaccine clinical trials unit now based in the Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine. As a specialist in paediatric infectious diseases, he has been a honorary consultant in the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital Trust since 1984. He became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1968 and was elected a Fellow in 1984. He was one of the founding Fellows of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007. His major research interests have been on the pathogenesis and prevention of sepsis and meningitis caused by the bacteria Haemophilus influenzae and Neisseria meningitidis.