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About John Oxford Dr. Oxford is Emeritus Professor of Virology at Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry. He is Founder of Retroscreen Virology Ltd and Oxford Media and Medicine Ltd. He has co-authored 2 standard texts: Influenza, the Viruses and the Disease with Sir Charles Stuart-Harris and G. C. Schild, and most recently Human Virology, a Text for Students of Medicine, Dentistry and Microbiology with L. Collier and P. Kellam, now in its fourth edition, published by Oxford University Press. Dr. Oxford has also published 300 scientific papers. His research interest is the pathogenicity of influenza, in particular the origin and nature of 1918 Spanish influenza strain, which he combines with conducting clinical trials using new influenza vaccines and antiviral drugs. This research has been featured on Science TV programs recently in the UK, USA, Germany and Holland. He was awarded communicator of the year for the influenza pandemic by the Society for Applied Microbiology and top communicator by the Society of Journalists, and placed among the 1,000 most influential Londoners by the Independent and Evening Standard newspapers. He has recently been awarded a D.Sc. for his research work on virology and as a science communicator, and elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCPE).
