Chief Scientific Officer
Prof Robert Wallis
Dr Wallis is a physician-scientist with training in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, and expertise in the development of biologics, vaccines, and small molecules.
Dr Wallis came to Aurum after nearly 10 years in the pharmaceutical industry, most recently at Pfizer, where his leadership in anti-infective R&D included the TB candidate sutezolid**. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Infectious Diseases and is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Dr Wallis is presently leading multiple studies of adjunctive host-directed therapies in tuberculosis at Aurum.
Journal Articles
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Chimoyi, L., Velen, K., Churchyard, G.J., Wallis, R., Lewis, J.J. and Charalambous, S., 2020. An ecological study to evaluate the association of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination on cases of SARS-CoV2 infection and mortality from COVID-19. PloS one, 15(12), p.e0243707.
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Auld, S.C., Maenetje, P., Ravimohan, S., Weissman, D., Ncube, I., Mlotshwa, M., Ratsela, N., Chase, W., Vangu, M.D.T., Wallis, R. and Churchyard, G., 2020. Declines in lung function after antiretroviral therapy initiation in adults with human immunodeficiency virus and tuberculosis: a potential manifestation of respiratory immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 70(8), pp.1750-1753.
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Ravimohan, S., Maenetje, P., Auld, S.C., Ncube, I., Mlotshwa, M., Chase, W., Tiemessen, C.T., Vangu, M.D.T., Wallis, R.S., Churchyard, G., Weissman, D., Kornfeld, H., Bisson, G.P., 2019. A common NLRC4 gene variant associates with inflammation and pulmonary function in human immunodeficiency virus and tuberculosis. Clinical Infectious Diseases: an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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Ravimohan, S., Auld, S.C., Maenetje, P., Ratsela, N., Mlotshwa, M., Ncube, I., Smith, J.P., Vangu, M.D.T., Sebe, M., Kossenkov, A. and Weissman, D., Wallis, R.S., Churchyard, G., Kornfeld, H., Bisson, G,P, 2019. Lung injury on antiretroviral therapy in adults with human immunodeficiency Virus/Tuberculosis. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 70(9), pp.1845-1854.
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Imperial, M.Z., Nahid, P., Phillips, P.P., Davies, G.R., Fielding, K., Hanna, D., Hermann, D., Wallis, R.S., Johnson, J.L., Lienhardt, C. and Savic, R.M., 2018. A patient-level pooled analysis of treatment-shortening regimens for drug-susceptible pulmonary tuberculosis. Nature medicine, 24(11), pp.1708-1715.
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Rachow, A., Ivanova, O., Wallis, R., Charalambous, S., Jani, I., Bhatt, N., Kampmann, B., Sutherland, J., Ntinginya, N.E., Evans, D. and Lönnroth, K., Niemann, S.,Ulrich, E., Schaible, Geldmacher, C., Sanne, I., Hoelscher, M., and Churchyard, G., 2019. TB sequel: incidence, pathogenesis and risk factors of long-term medical and social sequelae of pulmonary TB–a study protocol. BMC pulmonary medicine, 19(1), p.4.
