Martin Antonio is a Ghanaian biologist who is Principal Investigator at the Medical Research Council Unit (The Gambia) at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
He is Director of the World Health Organization Centre for New Vaccines Surveillance and leads the West and Central Africa Regional Reference Laboratory for Invasive Bacterial Diseases.
[1] He moved to Queen Mary University of London for his doctoral research, where he studied Staphylococcus aureus.
He has led several multi-national research projects to better understand the causes and prevalence of pneumonia and diarrhoea.
He leveraged the Medical Research Council (the Gambia) to identify the causative pathogens.