{{Short description|British virologist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Nick loman | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1979|2}} | birth_place = Brighton, England | birth_name = Nicholas James Loman | field = Microbiology | work_institution = University of Birmingham | alma_mater = Queen Mary University of London | doctoral_advisor = Mark Pallen }}
'''Nicholas James Loman''' (born February 1979) is the co-founder of the Gamer Network with his brother Rupert, which they started under the name Eurogamer Network in 1999.<ref name="Polygon">{{cite web |url=https://www.polygon.com/2018/2/26/17053662/reedpop-gamer-network-owner |title=PAX organizer acquires USgamer, Eurogamer and more |first=Allegra |last=Frank |date=26 February 2018 |website=Polygon |access-date=30 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190617100420/https://www.polygon.com/2018/2/26/17053662/reedpop-gamer-network-owner |archive-date=17 June 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> Nick left the business in 2004 to pursue a career in medicine.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gamer-network.net/about/history |title=History – About |website=Gamer Network |access-date=5 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502120004/https://www.gamer-network.net/about/history |archive-date=2 May 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
Loman studied medicine at Queen Mary University of London. He undertook an intercalated BSc degree in Pathology (Infection & Immunity) from Imperial College in 2001 and graduated in Medicine from Queen Mary University of London in 2004. He then spent some time as junior doctor, before working as a bioinformatician in Mark Pallen's research group at the University of Birmingham from 2007 to 2012, where gained a PhD in ''Comparative Bacterial Genomics''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/2839/ |title=Loman, Nicholas James (2012). Comparative bacterial genomics. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.}}</ref> On completing his thesis, Loman developed an interest in emerging viral infections, using Nanopore sequencing to track the spread of Ebola in the Western African Ebola virus epidemic.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nature16996 | title=Real-time, portable genome sequencing for Ebola surveillance}}</ref> During the COVID-19 pandemic, he played a key role in establishing bioinformatics workflows for genomic analysis of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://artic.network/ncov-2019/ncov2019-bioinformatics-sop.html | title= nCoV-2019 novel coronavirus bioinformatics protocol}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52993734|title=Coronavirus came to UK 'at least 1,300 times'|first=James|last=Gallagher|date=June 10, 2020|via=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref>
Since 2017, Loman has been professor of microbial genomics and bioinformatics at the Institute for Microbiology and Infection at the University of Birmingham.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/biosciences/loman-nick.aspx|title=Professor Nick Loman - School of Biosciences - University of Birmingham}}</ref> He is also a fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.turing.ac.uk/people/researchers/nicholas-loman|title=Nicholas Loman|website=The Alan Turing Institute}}</ref>
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== External links == *[https://lab.loman.net/about/ About · Loman Labs]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Loman, Nick}} Category:British microbiologists Category:21st-century British medical doctors Category:Alumni of Queen Mary University of London Category:Alumni of Imperial College London Category:Living people Category:1979 births