Benjamin Mappin-Kasirer
DPhil student
Benjamin is a DPhil student in the Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, affiliated with China Kadoorie Biobank research group in Oxford Population Health and the Respiratory Medicine Unit in the Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM).
He is supervised by Associate Professor Hubert Lam and Dr Ahmed Edris in Oxford Population Health, and Professor Ian Pavord in NDM, and is funded by an Oxford-Hoffman Graduate Scholarship in Medical Sciences, a departmental studentship, and a Titular Clarendon Fund Scholarship. His doctoral project focuses on modifiable risk factors for chronic airway diseases, chiefly biomarkers of type 2 inflammation, with interests in long-term risk, genetic determinants, Mendelian randomisation, and population proteomics.
He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada in his final year of clinical specialty training in respiratory medicine at McGill University. Prior to his DPhil, Benjamin obtained his medical degree at McGill University, and an MSc in Global Health Science at the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. He was Chief Medical Resident at the Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, in Montreal, Canada in 2022-23. He studied French literature at Yale University and Oxford, with an interest in asthma in the works of Marcel Proust, and was a competitive fencer for several years, including on the Yale University Varsity team, and on Team Canada at the Cadet World Championships in 2009.