Peter Horby

Sir Peter William Horby is a British physician, epidemiologist, Moh Family Foundation Professor of Emerging Infections and Global Health, and Director of the Pandemic Sciences Institute at the University of Oxford. He is the founder, and former director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Hanoi, Vietnam which was founded in 2006. In 2014, Horby established the Epidemic Research Group Oxford (ERGO). ERGO incorporates a number of international projects such as the European Commission funded PREPARE, the African coaLition for Epidemic Research, Response and Training (ALERRT), and the International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC). Since 2016, Horby has been chair and executive director of ISARIC.

Horby specialises in emerging and epidemic infectious diseases. He is the co-chief investigator of the RECOVERY Trial into drugs for COVID-19 (the largest clinical trial of COVID-19 in the world) alongside Martin Landray. In June 2020, he gave a statement at 10 Downing Street alongside the Prime Minister and Chief Scientific Adviser announcing the first positive trial results of the first life-saving COVID-19 drug, Dexamethasone. He is the primary author on the published preliminary report.

From 2020 to 2022, Horby was one of the attendees of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) He is the chair of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG).

He was knighted in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to medical research and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2024. Provided by Wikipedia
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Potential health and economic impacts of dexamethasone treatment for patients with COVID-19
by Ricardo Águas, Adam Mahdi, Rima Shretta, Peter Horby, Martin Landray, Lisa White, Fatima Arifi, Chynar Zhumalieva, Inke N.D. Lubis, Antoninho Benjamin Monteiro, Ainura Moldokmatova, Siyu Chen, Aida Estebesova, Mofakhar Hussain, Dipti Lata, Emmanuel A. Bakare, Biniam Getachew, Mohammad Nadir Sahak, Phetsavanh Chanthavilay, Akindeh M. Nji, Yu Nandar Aung, Nathaniel Hupert, Sai Thein Than Tun, Wirichada Pan-Ngum, K. C. Sarin, Handoyo Harsono, Sana Eybpoosh, Renato Mendes Coutinho, Semeeh A. Omoleke, Amen Patrick Nwosu, Nantasit Luangasanatip, Ainura Kutmanova, Aizhan Dooronbekova, Antonio Ximenes, Merita Monteiro, Olivier Celhay, Keyrellous Adib, Amel H. Salim, Yuki Yunanda, Mahnaz Hossain Fariba, Amirah Azzeri, Penny Hancock, Hakim Bekrizadeh, Sayed Ataullah Saeedzai, Ivana Alona, Grace Wezi Mzumara, Joao Martins, Jose L. Herrera-Diestra, Hamid Sharifi, Talant Abdyldaev, Babak Jamshidi, Noran Naqiah Hairi, Naima Nasir, Rashid U. Zaman, Sopuruchukwu Obiesie, Roberto A. Kraenkel, Nicholas Letchford, Lucsendar Raimunda Fernandes Alves, Sandra Adele, Lorena Suárez-Idueta, Nicole Advani, Manar Marzouk, Viviana Mabombo, Aibek Mukambetov, Adeniyi Kolade Aderoba, Bpriya Lakshmy Tbalasubramaniam, Nicole Feune de Colombi, Maria Angela Varela Niha, Francisco Obando, Parinda Wattanasri, Sompob Saralamba, Fatiha Shabaruddin, Shafiun Nahin Shimul, Maznah Dahlui, Reshania Naidoo, Caroline Franco, Michael G. Klein, Aisuluu Kubatova, Nusrat Jabin, Shwe Sin Kyaw, Luzia Tomas Freitas, Sunil Pokharel, Proochista Ariana, Chris Erwin G. Mercado, Shamil Ibragimov, John Robert C. Medina, Mesulame Namedre
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Author Correction: Potential health and economic impacts of dexamethasone treatment for patients with COVID-19 (Nature Communications, (2021), 12, 1, (915), 10.1038/s41467-021-21134-2)
by Ricardo Águas, Adam Mahdi, Rima Shretta, Peter Horby, Martin Landray, Lisa White, Fatima Arifi, Chynar Zhumalieva, Inke N.D. Lubis, Antoninho Benjamin Monteiro, Ainura Moldokmatova, Siyu Chen, Aida Estebesova, Mofakhar Hussain, Dipti Lata, Emmanuel A. Bakare, Biniam Getachew, Mohammad Nadir Sahak, Phetsavanh Chanthavilay, Akindeh M. Nji, Yu Nandar Aung, Nathaniel Hupert, Sai Thein Than Tun, Wirichada Pan-Ngum, K. C. Sarin, Handoyo Harsono, Sana Eybpoosh, Renato Mendes Coutinho, Semeeh A. Omoleke, Amen Patrick Nwosu, Nantasit Luangasanatip, Ainura Kutmanova, Aizhan Dooronbekova, Antonio Ximenes, Merita Monteiro, Olivier Celhay, Keyrellous Adib, Amel H. Salim, Yuki Yunanda, Mahnaz Hossain Fariba, Amirah Azzeri, Penny Hancock, Hakim Bekrizadeh, Sayed Ataullah Saeedzai, Ivana Alona, Grace Wezi Mzumara, Joao Martins, Jose L. Herrera-Diestra, Hamid Sharifi, Talant Abdyldaev, Babak Jamshidi, Noran Naqiah Hairi, Naima Nasir, Rashid U. Zaman, Sopuruchukwu Obiesie, Roberto A. Kraenkel, Nicholas Letchford, Lucsendar Raimunda Fernandes Alves, Sandra Adele, Lorena Suárez-Idueta, Nicole Advani, Manar Marzouk, Viviana Mabombo, Aibek Mukambetov, Adeniyi Kolade Aderoba, Bpriya Lakshmy Tbalasubramaniam, Nicole Feune de Colombi, Maria Angela Varela Niha, Francisco Obando, Parinda Wattanasri, Sompob Saralamba, Fatiha Shabaruddin, Shafiun Nahin Shimul, Maznah Dahlui, Reshania Naidoo, Caroline Franco, Michael G. Klein, Aisuluu Kubatova, Nusrat Jabin, Shwe Sin Kyaw, Luzia Tomas Freitas, Sunil Pokharel, Proochista Ariana, Chris Erwin G. Mercado, Shamil Ibragimov, John Robert C. Medina, Mesulame Namedre
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