Dr James Watson
Dr
James
Watson
Associate Director
Co-Lead Malaria Chemoprevention Theme
Research Theme
Malaria
Chagas
WWARN

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.

All Publications

Characterising blood stage antimalarial drug minimum inhibitory concentrations in vivo using reinfection patterns
Watson, J., Chu, C., Tarning, J., & White, N. (2018). Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 62(7), e02476 - 17.
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Machine learning for randomised controlled trials: identifying treatment effectheterogeneity with strict control of type I error
Holmes, C., & Watson, J. (2018).
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Split dosing of artemisinins does not improve antimalarial therapeutic efficacy
White, N., Watson, J., & Ashley, E. (2017). Scientific Reports, 7(12132), 1-5.
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Antimalarial resistance unlikely to explain U.K. artemether-lumefantrine failures
van der Pluijm, R., Watson, J., & Woodrow, C. (2017). Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 61(7), e00721 - 17.
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Modelling primaquine-induced haemolysis in G6PD deficiency
White, N., Watson, J., Taylor, R., Menard, D., & Kheng, S. (2017). ELife.
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Rejoinder: Approximate Models and Robust Decisions
Watson, J., & Holmes, C. (2017). Statistical Science, 31(4), 516-520.
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Approximate models and robust decisions
Watson, J., & Holmes, C. (2017). Statistical Science, 31(4), 465-489.
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Characterizing variation of nonparametric random probability measures using the Kullback–Leibler divergence
Watson, J., Nieto-Barajas, L., & Holmes, C. (2016). Statistics, 51(3), 558-571.
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Characterising viral clearance kinetics in acute influenza
Wongnak, P., Seers, T., Jittamala, P., Imwong, M., Schilling, W., Watson, J., & White, N. (n.d.). In medRxiv.
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Strong gene dose dependent protective effect of Mediterranean type glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency against Plasmodium vivax malaria
Awab, G., Aaram, F., Jamornthanyawat, N., Suwannasin, K., Pagornrat, W., Watson, J., Woodrow, C., Dondorp, A., Day, N., Imwong, M., & White, N. (n.d.).
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Graphing and reporting heterogeneous treatment effects through reference classes
Watson, J., & Holmes, C. (n.d.). In bioRxiv.
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A semi-supervised learning framework for quantitative structure-activity regression modelling
Watson, O., Cortes-Ciriano, I., & Watson, J. (n.d.).
A decision theoretic approach to model evaluation in computational drug discovery
Watson, O., Cortes-Ciriano, I., Taylor, A., & Watson, J. (n.d.).