Dr Ruth Payne

MBChB, MSc, PhD, DTMH, MRCP

School of Medicine and Population Health

Senior Clinical Lecturer in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Ruth Payne
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r.o.payne@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 215 9535
Office: LU114, The Medical School

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Dr Ruth Payne
School of Medicine and Population Health
Office: LU114
The Medical School
Beech Hill Road
Sheffield
S10 2RX
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For enquiries please contact - SMPH-West-Operational@sheffield.ac.uk

I was appointed as a Senior Clinical Lecturer and Consultant Microbiologist in August 2022. I originally joined the University of Sheffield in 2018 as an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer and Honorary SpR in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology. 

I graduated from the University of Sheffield Medical School in 2005 and I have worked in Sheffield, New Zealand, Oxford and Nottingham since then. I completed a Masters in Tropical Medicine and International Health in 2011 at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and subsequently worked as a Research Fellow in the blood-stage malaria vaccine group at the Jenner Institute, University of Oxford (2012 - 2016).

This experience has led to my ongoing involvement and research in vaccination, particularly for pathogens that are difficult to control/ eradicate but cause a huge burden of disease such as malaria.

Research interests

For enquiries, please contact – ClinMed-Operational@sheffield.ac.uk

My research interests are in vaccinology and malaria infection. I am particularly interested in looking at the innate responses to vaccination and how these are affected by changes in vaccine regimen or adjuvant.

Publications

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Journal articles

  • Jin J, Tarrant RD, Bolam EJ, Angell-Manning P, Soegaard M, Pattinson DJ, Dulal P, Silk SE, Marshall JM, Dabbs RA , Nugent FL et al (2018) . npj Vaccines, 3(1).
  • Coughlan L, Sridhar S, Payne R, Edmans M, Milicic A, Venkatraman N, Lugonja B, Clifton L, Qi C, Folegatti PM , Lawrie AM et al (2018) . EBioMedicine, 29, 146-154.
  • Payne RO, Silk SE, Elias SC, Miura K, Diouf A, Galaway F, de Graaf H, Brendish NJ, Poulton ID, Griffiths OJ , Edwards NJ et al (2017) . JCI insight, 2(21).
  • Payne RO, Silk SE, Elias SC, Milne KH, Rawlinson TA, Llewellyn D, Shakri AR, Jin J, Labbé GM, Edwards NJ , Poulton ID et al (2017) . JCI insight, 2(12).
  • Payne RO, Griffin PM, McCarthy JS & Draper SJ (2017) . Trends in Parasitology, 33(2), 141-150.
  • Rampling T, Ewer KJ, Bowyer G, Bliss CM, Edwards NJ, Wright D, Payne RO, Venkatraman N, de Barra E, Snudden CM , Poulton ID et al (2016) . Journal of infectious diseases, 214(5), 772-781.
  • Payne RO, Milne KH, Elias SC, Edwards NJ, Douglas AD, Brown RE, Silk SE, Biswas S, Miura K, Roberts R , Rampling TW et al (2016) . The Journal of infectious diseases, 213(11), 1743-1751.
  • Ewer K, Rampling T, Venkatraman N, Bowyer G, Wright D, Lambe T, Imoukhuede EB, Payne R, Fehling SK, Strecker T , Biedenkopf N et al (2016) . New England Journal of Medicine, 374(17), 1635-1646.

All publications

Journal articles

  • Payne RO, Edwards NJ, Themistocleous Y, Silk SE, Barrett JR, Rawlinson TA, Lim IW, Draper SJ & Minassian AM (2025) . Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
  • Payne R, Frejah I, Abbey E, Badcoe R, Delaney B & Mitchell C (2025) . BMC Medical Education, 25(1).
  • Ramasamy MN, Kelly EJ, Seegobin S, Dargan PI, Payne R, Libri V, Adam M, Aley PK, Martinez-Alier N, Church A , Jepson B et al (2023) . The Lancet Microbe, 4(11), e863-e874.
  • Silk SE, Kalinga WF, Mtaka IM, Lilolime NS, Mpina M, Milando F, Ahmed S, Diouf A, Mkwepu F, Simon B , Athumani T et al (2023) . Med, 4(10), 668-686.e7.
  • Shaw RH, Greenland M, Stuart ASV, Aley PK, Andrews NJ, Cameron JC, Charlton S, Clutterbuck EA, Collins AM, Darton T , Dinesh T et al (2023) . Journal of Infection.
  • Nielsen CM, Barrett JR, Davis C, Fallon JK, Goh C, Michell AR, Griffin C, Kwok A, Loos C, Darko S , Laboune F et al (2023) . JCI Insight, 8(2).
  • Mentzer AJ, O’Connor D, Bibi S, Chelysheva I, Clutterbuck EA, Demissie T, Dinesh T, Edwards NJ, Felle S, Feng S , Flaxman AL et al (2023) . Nature Medicine, 29(1), 147-157.
  • Salkeld J, Themistocleous Y, Barrett JR, Mitton CH, Rawlinson TA, Payne RO, Hou MM, Khozoee B, Edwards NJ, Nielsen CM , Sandoval DM et al (2022) . Front Immunol, 13, 984323.
  • Stuart ASV, Shaw RH, Liu X, Greenland M, Aley PK, Andrews NJ, Cameron JC, Charlton S, Clutterbuck EA, Collins AM , Darton T et al (2022) . The Lancet, 399(10319), 36-49.
  • Swanson PA, Padilla M, Hoyland W, McGlinchey K, Fields PA, Bibi S, Faust SN, McDermott AB, Lambe T, Pollard AJ , Durham NM et al (2021) . Science Translational Medicine, 13(620).
  • Zaric M, Marini A, Nielsen CM, Gupta G, Mekhaiel D, Pham TP, Elias SC, Taylor IJ, de Graaf H, Payne RO , Li Y et al (2021) . Frontiers in Immunology, 12.
  • de Graaf H, Payne RO, Taylor I, Miura K, Long CA, Elias SC, Zaric M, Minassian AM, Silk SE, Li L , Poulton ID et al (2021) . Frontiers in Immunology, 12, 694759-694759.
  • Fernandez Lynch H, Darton TC, Levy J, McCormick F, Ogbogu U, Payne RO, Roth AE, Shah AJ, Smiley T & Largent EA (2021) . The American Journal of Bioethics, 21(5), W8-W11.
  • Minassian AM, Silk SE, Barrett JR, Nielsen CM, Miura K, Diouf A, Loos C, Fallon JK, Michell AR, White MT , Edwards NJ et al (2021) . Med, 2(6), 701-719.e19.
  • Voysey M, Costa Clemens SA, Madhi SA, Weckx LY, Folegatti PM, Aley PK, Angus B, Baillie VL, Barnabas SL, Bhorat QE , Bibi S et al (2021) . The Lancet, 397(10277), 881-891.
  • Milne K, Ivens A, Reid AJ, Lotkowska ME, O'Toole A, Sankaranarayanan G, Munoz Sandoval D, Nahrendorf W, Regnault C, Edwards NJ , Silk SE et al (2021) . eLife, 10.
  • Nielsen CM, Ogbe A, Pedroza-Pacheco I, Doeleman SE, Chen Y, Silk SE, Barrett JR, Elias SC, Miura K, Diouf A , Bardelli M et al (2021) . Cell Reports Medicine, 2(3).
  • Lynch HF, Darton TC, Levy J, McCormick F, Ogbogu U, Payne RO, Roth AE, Shah AJ, Smiley T & Largent EA (2021) . The American Journal of Bioethics, 21(3), 11-31.
  • RECOVERY Collaborative Group T (2021) . Lancet, 397(10274), 605-612.
  • Voysey M, Clemens SAC, Madhi SA, Weckx LY, Folegatti PM, Aley PK, Angus B, Baillie VL, Barnabas SL, Bhorat QE , Bibi S et al (2020) . The Lancet, 397(10269), 99-111.
  • Payne R (2020) . Journal of Medical Ethics, 46(12), 829-830.
  • Labbé GM, Miura K, Silk SE, Gu W, Moon JE, Jin J, Payne RO, Fay MP, Dutta S, Long CA & Draper SJ (2019) . Malaria Journal, 18(1).
  • Rawlinson TA, Barber NM, Mohring F, Cho JS, Kosaisavee V, Gérard SF, Alanine DGW, Labbé GM, Elias SC, Silk SE , Quinkert D et al (2019) . Nature Microbiology, 4(9), 1497-1507.
  • Alanine DGW, Quinkert D, Kumarasingha R, Mehmood S, Donnellan FR, Minkah NK, Dadonaite B, Diouf A, Galaway F, Silk SE , Jamwal A et al (2019) . Cell, 178(1), 216-228.
  • Rampling T, Ewer KJ, Bowyer G, Edwards NJ, Wright D, Sridhar S, Payne R, Powlson J, Bliss C, Venkatraman N , Poulton ID et al (2018) . npj Vaccines, 3(1).
  • Jin J, Tarrant RD, Bolam EJ, Angell-Manning P, Soegaard M, Pattinson DJ, Dulal P, Silk SE, Marshall JM, Dabbs RA , Nugent FL et al (2018) . npj Vaccines, 3(1).
  • Coughlan L, Sridhar S, Payne R, Edmans M, Milicic A, Venkatraman N, Lugonja B, Clifton L, Qi C, Folegatti PM , Lawrie AM et al (2018) . EBioMedicine, 31, 321-321.
  • Coughlan L, Sridhar S, Payne R, Edmans M, Milicic A, Venkatraman N, Lugonja B, Clifton L, Qi C, Folegatti PM , Lawrie AM et al (2018) . EBioMedicine, 29, 146-154.
  • Payne RO, Silk SE, Elias SC, Miura K, Diouf A, Galaway F, de Graaf H, Brendish NJ, Poulton ID, Griffiths OJ , Edwards NJ et al (2017) . JCI insight, 2(21).
  • Payne RO, Silk SE, Elias SC, Milne KH, Rawlinson TA, Llewellyn D, Shakri AR, Jin J, Labbé GM, Edwards NJ , Poulton ID et al (2017) . JCI insight, 2(12).
  • Payne RO, Griffin PM, McCarthy JS & Draper SJ (2017) . Trends in Parasitology, 33(2), 141-150.
  • Rampling T, Ewer KJ, Bowyer G, Bliss CM, Edwards NJ, Wright D, Payne RO, Venkatraman N, de Barra E, Snudden CM , Poulton ID et al (2016) . Journal of infectious diseases, 214(5), 772-781.
  • Payne RO, Milne KH, Elias SC, Edwards NJ, Douglas AD, Brown RE, Silk SE, Biswas S, Miura K, Roberts R , Rampling TW et al (2016) . The Journal of infectious diseases, 213(11), 1743-1751.
  • Ewer K, Rampling T, Venkatraman N, Bowyer G, Wright D, Lambe T, Imoukhuede EB, Payne R, Fehling SK, Strecker T , Biedenkopf N et al (2016) . New England Journal of Medicine, 374(17), 1635-1646.
  • Payne R, Forde D, Vedio A, Cope A, Pratt G & Tunbridge A (2013) . Reviews in Clinical Gerontology, 23(2), 131-141.
  • Payne R, Darton TC & Greig JM (2009) . Journal of Infection, 59(5), 371-372.

Conference proceedings

  • Minassian A, Silk S, Poulton I, Mitton C, Payne R, Rawlinson T, Barrett J, Baker M, Ramon R, Lopez F , Edwards N et al (2018) EFFICACY OF THE NOVEL PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM BLOOD-STAGE VACCINE RH5.1/AS01B IN A PHASE I/IIA CLINICAL TRIAL. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE, Vol. 99(4) (pp 581-582)

Preprints

  • Nielsen CM, Barrett JR, Davis CL, Fallon JK, Goh C, Michell AR, Griffin CL, Kwok A, Loos C, Darko S , Laboune F et al () .
  • Nielsen CM, Barrett JR, Davis CL, Fallon JK, Goh C, Michell AR, Griffin CL, Kwok A, Loos C, Darko S , Laboune F et al () .
  • Lynch HF, Darton T, Largent E, Levy J, McCormick F, Ogbogu U, Payne R, Roth AE, Jefferson Shah A & Smiley T () .
Teaching interests

I am the deputy director for the DTM&H Preparatory Course in Sheffield, and lead the teaching on malaria for the course. I also teach on Masters programs within the faculty, in addition to clinical teaching.