Miles Davenport

Professor Miles Davenport is head of the Infection Analytics Program at the Kirby Institute, at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney Australia. His background is in clinical medicine and experimental immunology before retraining in computational biology over 20 years ago. He now directs a team of applied mathematicians applying statistical and computational approaches to understand infection dynamics. His research focus is on understanding and modeling host-pathogen interactions in SARS-CoV-2, HIV, and malaria. In 2021 his team identified neutralizing antibodies as an important immune correlate for protection from SARS-CoV-2 infection. This work has helped predict waning immunity and loss of immunity to SARS-CoV-2 variants, and has been cited in multiple statements / guidelines on SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination.