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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.[1] Nick left the business in 2004 to pursue a career in medicine.[2]

Loman studied medicine at Queen Mary University of London. 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 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 from 2007 to 2012, where gained a PhD in Comparative Bacterial Genomics.[3] On completing his thesis, Loman developed an interest in emerging viral infections, using Nanopore sequencing to track the spread of Ebola in the Western African Ebola virus epidemic.[4] During the COVID-19 pandemic, he played a key role in establishing bioinformatics workflows for genomic analysis of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.[5][6]

Since 2017, Loman has been professor of microbial genomics and bioinformatics at the Institute for Microbiology and Infection at the University of Birmingham.[7] He is also a fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.[8]

References

  1. ^ Frank, Allegra (26 February 2018). "PAX organizer acquires USgamer, Eurogamer and more". Polygon. Archived from the original on 17 June 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  2. ^ "History – About". Gamer Network. Archived from the original on 2 May 2019. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Loman, Nicholas James (2012). Comparative bacterial genomics. University of Birmingham. Ph.D."
  4. ^ "Real-time, portable genome sequencing for Ebola surveillance".
  5. ^ "nCoV-2019 novel coronavirus bioinformatics protocol".
  6. ^ Gallagher, James (10 June 2020). "Coronavirus came to UK 'at least 1,300 times'" – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  7. ^ "Professor Nick Loman - School of Biosciences - University of Birmingham".
  8. ^ "Nicholas Loman". The Alan Turing Institute.

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