Dr William L. Hamilton
Clinical Lecturer in Medical Microbiology
I am a clinician scientist specialising in infectious diseases and medical microbiology. I am currently a clinical lecturer in medical microbiology at Cambridge University and an infection doctor at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. My research is based at Cambridge University and the Wellcome Sanger Institute.
I am interested in pathogen genomic epidemiology – using genomics and data science to study how infectious microbes spread, cause disease and evolve resistance to our treatments and interventions. I have worked on multiple pathogens including malaria, E. coli, SARS-CoV-2 and HIV. I enjoy multidisciplinary team-working and translational research, from patients to python scripts.
I have been awarded a Blood Cancer UK Early Career Fellowship to study infectious disease dynamics and molecular microbiology in immune compromised patients with blood cancer, collaborating across multiple hospitals in the UK. I will use metagenomics and microbial whole genome sequencing to study viral respiratory tract infections and antibiotic resistant bacteria in immune compromised blood cancer patients, aiming to improve the prevention and treatment of infections in these complex and vulnerable patients.
Personal website: https://www.hamilton-genomics.com/
GitHub: https://github.com/wlhamilton
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-hamilton-18332649/
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3330-353X
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZE6fczoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra
My timeline
NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Medical Microbiology, Cambridge University
Senior staff scientist at Wellcome Sanger Institute
Began academic specialist training in infectious diseases and medical microbiology, East of England
Junior doctor working in Brighton
Completed PhD in malaria genomics with Prof Dominic Kwiatkowski, Wellcome Sanger Institute (integrated MB/PhD Programme)
Completed undergraduate degree in biological and biomedical science, Cambridge University
Started medical training at Cambridge University