Research groups
Dominic Kelly
BRC Consultant in Paediatrics and Vaccinology.
- Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
Vaccines and vaccine preventable disease in childhood
I am a BRC funded consultant in paediatrics and vaccinology. I undertook clinical training in paediatrics in Oxford, Reading, Melbourne, Vancouver and Yorkshire. I completed a PhD in 2008 within the Oxford Vaccine Group and began my current post in 2009. I divide my time between working in general paediatrics and paediatric infectious disease/immunology at the Children’s Hospital in Oxford and vaccine related research within the Oxford Vaccine Group.
Recent publications
Prior immunological memory to pertussis toxin affects the avidity development of anti-PT IgG antibodies after acellular pertussis booster vaccination.
Journal article
Knuutila A. et al, (2025), Emerg Microbes Infect, 14
Global variations in immunisation strategies against pertussis in infancy.
Journal article
Murphy S. et al, (2025), Expert Rev Vaccines, 24, 882 - 903
The effect of pertussis vaccination in pregnancy on the immunogenicity of acellular or whole-cell pertussis vaccination in Gambian infants (GaPS): a single-centre, randomised, controlled, double-blind, phase 4 trial.
Journal article
Saso A. et al, (2025), Lancet Infect Dis, 25, 909 - 924
A vaccine emergency – when to overrule parental refusal of vaccination at birth for prevention of vertical transmission of hepatitis B virus?
Journal article
Wilkinson D. and SAVULESCU J., (2025), Archives of Disease in Childhood
Prediction and characterisation of the human B cell response to a heterologous two-dose Ebola vaccine.
Journal article
O'Connor D. et al, (2025), Nat Commun, 16

