Nick loman | |
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| Born | Nicholas James Loman February 1979 (age 45) Brighton, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Queen Mary University of London |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Microbiology |
| Institutions | University of Birmingham |
| Doctoral advisor | Mark Pallen |
Nicholas James Loman (born February 1979) is the 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]