Professor Richard Price

Associate Professor Robert Commons

Dr. James Watson

Associate Professor Sarah Auburn

Dr. Emily Groves is an internal medicine physician and commenced her DPhil at the Centre for Global Health Research in October 2024 supported by an Oxford-Medical Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership Prize Studentship. Under the supervision of Prof. Richard Price, A/Prof. Robert Commons, Dr. James Watson, and A/Prof. Sarah Auburn, her DPhil will generate evidence to define the efficacy and safety of different treatment strategies for Plasmodium vivax malaria. Emily will integrate parasite and human genetic data generated by novel genotyping assays with mathematical modelling and clinical data from multinational studies to improve our understanding of the benefits and risks of different P. vivax treatments.

Emily completed her medical training at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford and spent a year as a Herchel Smith Scholar at Harvard University where she studied Global Health. She has worked as a clinician in Oxford, Reading, and London, and spent a year as an International Fellow in Tropical Medicine at the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin, Australia, in 2020-21 in Prof. Price’s research team. She co-ordinated a collaborative project through the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network to define parasitaemia thresholds for diagnosing vivax malaria and conducted systematic reviews and meta-analyses on severe haemolysis during primaquine treatment for P. vivax.

EDUCATION

• 2023 – Member of the Royal College of Physicians, UK
• 2015-18 – BMBCh with Distinction, University of Oxford – recipient of the Meakins-McClaran Medal for the highest overall performance
• 2014-15 – Herchel Smith Scholar at Harvard University
• 2011-14 – MA in Pre-Clinical Medicine (Part II Pharmacology) with First Class Honours, University of Cambridge – recipient of the Pharmacology Prize and Pharmacology Project Prize

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

• 2021-24 – Internal Medicine Training (IMY1-3), North West London
• 2020-21 – International Fellow in Tropical Medicine at the Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Australia (Supervisors: Prof. Richard Price and A/Prof. Robert Commons)
• 2018-20 – Foundation Programme (F1-2), Thames Valley

THESIS

• Novel tools and approaches for safer and more effective treatment of Plasmodium vivax malaria