Manish Sadarangani BM, BCh, MRCPCH, DPhil

Dr. Manish Sadarangani is Director of the Vaccine Evaluation Center at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute and an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, UBC Department of Pediatrics. He completed his undergraduate medical training and pediatric residency in Cambridge, Oxford, and London in the UK. He then completed his DPhil with the Oxford Vaccine Group in the UK, developing novel vaccine candidates for protection against capsular group B meningococcal disease, and completed a Fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases in Vancouver in 2013 before returning to Oxford to work as a Pediatric Infectious Diseases physician.

He is involved in pre-clinical vaccine development, multi-center clinical trials, and infectious diseases epidemiology. Specific research interests include meningococcal disease and meningococcal vaccines, bacterial conjugate vaccines, meningitis and encephalitis, maternal immunization, microbiota, and antibiotic resistance, and antimicrobial stewardship.