Dr Fergus Hamilton
PhD
Expertise
I am a clinical academic in infectious disease and medical microbiology. I have a background in statistical genetics and clinical trials.
Current positions
NIHR Clinical Lecturer
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Contact
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Biography
My personal website has my biography and details.
https://gushamilton.github.io/lab/
Research interests
I am interested in infection. My main interests are outcomes from severe infection, differentiating phenotypes of infection, and molecular approaches to diagnosis of infection.
I am currently an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow at North Bristol NHS Trust, and am due to start a Wellcome GW4 PhD in 2020, looking at host genomic and transcriptomic responses in infection.
My other interest is in drawing causal inference from observational data.
Publications
Recent publications
01/01/2025Altered IL-6 signalling and risk of tuberculosis
The Lancet Microbe
Determinants of respiratory tract aerosol generation in a diverse clinical population
BMJ Open Respiratory Research
Does piperacillin-tazobactam increase mortality risk compared to cefepime?
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Less haste, more speed
The Journal of infection
No More Free Lunch
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
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