Sharon Peacock

Sharon Peacock
CBE FMedSci MRCP MAE
Born
Sharon Jayne Hardstaffe

(1959-03-24) 24 March 1959 (age 65)
Alma materUniversity of Southampton (BM)
Open University (PhD)
Spouse
Peter Peacock
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(m. 1983)​
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Children3 [3]
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPathogens
Genomics
Clinical practice
Public health[2]
Institutions
ThesisStaphylococcal fibronectin-binding proteins (2003)
Websitewww.med.cam.ac.uk/peacock/ Edit this at Wikidata

Sharon Jayne Peacock CBE FMedSci MRCP MAE (born 24 March 1959)[3] is a British microbiologist who is Professor of Public Health and Microbiology in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cambridge, and Master of Churchill College, Cambridge.

Peacock is known for her work on the use of microbial whole genome sequencing in diagnostic and public health microbiology, for research and policy work relating to antimicrobial resistance, and for her research on Burkholderia pseudomallei and Staphylococcus aureus including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). In 2020, she led the development of the COG-UK consortium, which provided genomic sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the pandemic response.

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  3. ^ a b c Anon (2020). "Peacock, Sharon Jayne". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U250669. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)