Emmanuelle joined the Senior Management Team at IDDO in December 2023. As Senior Operations and Development Manager, she provides leadership to programme management and operations activity across IDDO’s portfolio of infectious disease research themes and data repository. She also oversees the governance of the organisation, and supports its strategic development including funding, communications and partnerships.
Emmanuelle has an MRes in Molecular and Cellular Immunology with a specialisation in Virology from University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France. She carried out a PhD in genetics at the WCHG in Oxford, developing the first prenatal diagnosis for a severe congenital immune and skin disorder. She then moved to the MRC Functional Genomics Unit, working in neurosciences on new therapeutic pathways for aggressive forms of blood cancer in children, before joining the Department of Statistics.
In the past 10 years, she managed the strategies, operations, and governance of multidisciplinary programmes in cancer and infertility across experimental and computational biology, including building and leading new research and preclinical validation platforms in academia and the industry.
James Watson joined IDDO in March 2023 as Associate Director.
He is a Sir Henry Dale Fellow funded by the Wellcome Trust working on improving the diagnosis and treatment of severe falciparum malaria.
James is a statistician by training and previously worked at the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok for seven years before moving to the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Viet Nam.
His research interests also include the radical cure of Plasmodium vivax malaria, SARS-CoV-2 antivirals, Chagas disease, snakebite and adaptive trial design.
Professor Philippe Guérin is Director of the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO). He was appointed Director of the WorldWide Antimalarial Research Network (WWARN) - the prototypic model for IDDO - in January 2009. Philippe has extensive experience working in the field for Médecins Sans Frontières and as a researcher for a Wellcome Trust Research Unit in many countries in Africa and Asia. Following three years as a Senior Advisor to the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Philippe joined Épicentre in Paris - a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Research in epidemiology and response to emerging diseases. Philippe served as Scientific Director for six years at Épicentre before moving to WWARN.