James Andrew Watson

Biography

James Watson is a Sir Henry Dale Fellow and Associate Director at the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory, a data re-use platform aimed at helping improve the treatment of major infectious diseases. His main work focuses on severe malaria, notably improving the diagnosis and prognosis in severe malaria in areas of high malaria transmission. He helped develop the statistical methodology for adaptive platform trials characterising antiviral effects of therapeutics in SARS-CoV-2, influenza, RSV, and dengue. He is an investigator on the CHARM project, which aims to develop a new methodology for the assessment of new antiparasitic drugs for the treatment of Chagas disease.

Research Interests
Anti-infective drugs; malaria; neglected tropical diseases; statistical modelling