Sharon Peacock#
| Membership Number: | 6043 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.med.cam.ac.uk/peacock/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1718-2782 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 04/2020 Executive Director & Chair, COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK)
- 04/2019 Professor of Public Health and Microbiology, University of Cambridge, UK
- 09/2015 Non-Executive Director, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK
- 04/2019 - 09/2021 Director, National Infection Service (04-2019-04/2020) and then Director of Science (Pathogen Genomics) (04/2020 - 09/2020), Public Health England (secondment)
- 09/2015 - 04/2019 Professor of Clinical Microbiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and University College London, UK
- 09/2009 - 09/2015 Professor of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge
- 01/2003 - 09/2009 Head, Bacterial Diseases Research, Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme, Thailand (Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Mahidol University)
- 06/1998 - 01/2003 Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, University of Oxford, UK
- 09/1992 - 06/1995 Registrar in Clinical Microbiology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Leptospirosis and rickettsial infections
- Burkholderia pseudomallei
- Leptospirosis and rickettsial infections
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Melioidosis and its cause
- SARS-CoV-2 sequencing
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Sequencing of nosocomial pathogens to generate actionable information for public health
Honours and Awards
- 2022 DSc (honorary), Royal Veterinary College, London
- 2021 Medical Research Council (MRC) Millennium Medal
- 2020/21 Listed as Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate
- 2019 Sir Anthony Epstein Lecture, Bristol University
- 2019 Ker Memorial Lecture, Edinburgh University
- 2019 Macfarlane Burnet prize lecture, Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases
- 2018 Unilever Colworth Prize, for outstanding contribution to translational microbiology
- 2017 National Institute for Health Research Senior Investigator Award
- 2017 Jenner Lecture, St Georges Hospital Medical School
- 2016 Emmanuelle Caron Memorial Lecture, Imperial College
- 2015 Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for services to medical microbiology
- 2015 Elected Member of EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organisation)
- 2015 Linacre Lecture, St John’s College Cambridge
- 2015 William Evans Visiting Fellowship, Dept Preventive & Social Medicine, University of Otago
- 2015 McAuley Oration in International Health, University of Otago, New Zealand
- 2014 Ruysch lecture, Amsterdam Medical Centre
- 2014 Tony Hart Memorial Lecture, University of Liverpool, UK
- 2014 Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
- 2013 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2005 Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists
- 2002 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London
