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Biology and Biochemistry
UK
2026

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Biology and Biochemistry

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97
Citations
49401
World Ranking
1723
National Ranking
109

Medicine

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97
Citations
50209
World Ranking
9096
National Ranking
884

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 1993 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Christophe Fraser is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with a concentration in Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Virology, Modeling and Simulation, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment
  • COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing

Christophe Fraser has published extensively across various venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Science
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing," 2020, Science
  • "Evaluating the Effects of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Mutation D614G on Transmissibility and Pathogenicity," 2020, Cell
  • "SARS-CoV-2 Omicron is an immune escape variant with an altered cell entry pathway," 2022, Nature Microbiology
  • "Hospital admission and emergency care attendance risk for SARS-CoV-2 delta (B.1.617.2) compared with alpha (B.1.1.7) variants of concern: a cohort study," 2021, Cronfa (Swansea University)
  • "Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing," 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Christophe Fraser include:

  • David Bonsall
  • Lucie Abeler-Dörner
  • Tanya Golubchik
  • Luca Ferretti
  • Chris Wymant

Christophe Fraser was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1993.

Best Publications

  • Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing.

    Luca Ferretti;Chris Wymant;Michelle Kendall;Lele Zhao

  • Strategies for mitigating an influenza pandemic

    Neil M. Ferguson;Derek A. T. Cummings;Christophe Fraser;James C. Cajka

  • Pandemic Potential of a Strain of Influenza A (H1N1) : Early Findings

    Christophe Fraser;Christl A. Donnelly;Simon Cauchemez;William P. Hanage

  • Strategies for containing an emerging influenza pandemic in Southeast Asia

    Neil M. Ferguson;Derek A.T. Cummings;Simon Cauchemez;Christophe Fraser

  • A New Framework and Software to Estimate Time-Varying Reproduction Numbers During Epidemics

    Anne Cori;Neil M. Ferguson;Christophe Fraser;Simon Cauchemez

  • Transmission dynamics of the etiological agent of SARS in Hong Kong: impact of public health interventions.

    Steven Riley;Christophe Fraser;Christl A. Donnelly;Azra C. Ghani

  • Epidemiological determinants of spread of causal agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong

    Christl A Donnelly;Azra C Ghani;Gabriel M Leung;Anthony J Hedley

  • Factors that make an infectious disease outbreak controllable.

    Christophe Fraser;Steven Riley;Roy M. Anderson;Neil M. Ferguson

  • Assessing transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 in England.

    Erik Volz;Swapnil Mishra;Meera Chand;Jeffrey C. Barrett

  • Rapid Pneumococcal Evolution in Response to Clinical Interventions

    Nicholas J. Croucher;Simon R. Harris;Christophe Fraser;Michael A. Quail

  • SARS-CoV-2 evolution during treatment of chronic infection.

    Steven A. Kemp;Dami A. Collier;Dami A. Collier;Rawlings P. Datir;Isabella A. T. M. Ferreira

  • HIV-1 transmission, by stage of infection.

    T. Déirdre Hollingsworth;Roy M. Anderson;Christophe Fraser

  • Mathematical models of infectious disease transmission

    Nicholas C. Grassly;Christophe Fraser

  • Modeling targeted layered containment of an influenza pandemic in the United States

    Elizabeth M. Halloran;Neil M. Ferguson;Stephen Eubank;Ira M. Longini;Ira M. Longini

  • Seasonal infectious disease epidemiology

    Nicholas C Grassly;Christophe Fraser

  • Sensitivity of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 to mRNA vaccine-elicited antibodies.

    Dami A. Collier;Dami A. Collier;Anna De Marco;Isabella A. T. M. Ferreira;Bo Meng

  • Estimating Individual and Household Reproduction Numbers in an Emerging Epidemic

    Christophe Fraser

  • Recombination and the Nature of Bacterial Speciation

    Christophe Fraser;William P. Hanage;Brian G. Spratt

  • Household transmission of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus in the United States.

    Simon Cauchemez;Christl A. Donnelly;Carrie Reed;Azra C. Ghani

  • Hospital admission and emergency care attendance risk for SARS-CoV-2 delta (B.1.617.2) compared with alpha (B.1.1.7) variants of concern: a cohort study.

    Katherine A Twohig;Tommy Nyberg;Asad Zaidi;Simon Thelwall

Frequent Co-Authors

Luke Vale
Luke Vale Newcastle University
Neil M. Ferguson
Neil M. Ferguson Imperial College London
Christl A. Donnelly
Christl A. Donnelly University of Oxford
Sarah E Pinder
Sarah E Pinder King's College London
Fiona J. Gilbert
Fiona J. Gilbert University of Cambridge
William P. Hanage
William P. Hanage Harvard University
Azra C. Ghani
Azra C. Ghani Imperial College London
Anne Cori
Anne Cori Imperial College London
Marc Lipsitch
Marc Lipsitch Harvard University
Nicholas J. Croucher
Nicholas J. Croucher Imperial College London

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