Faculty

Sanjeev Krishna is Professor of Molecular Parasitology and Medicine at St. George’s University of London and an infectious diseases physician at St George’s Trust. After a degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge and a medical degree at Oxford, he studied clinical malaria in Thailand and then returned to Oxford to complete a DPhil on transport proteins of malaria parasites as new drug targets. His interests have expanded to other neglected infections including sleeping sickness, tuberculosis and pandemic threat organisms. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2004 and awarded an ScD by the University of Cambridge in 2007. He advises multiple international bodies, including the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), the Wellcome Trust and the WHO, including their Guidelines Development and Review Committees. He has inaugurated a Centre for Affordable Diagnostics and Therapeutics (cadt.org.uk) to accelerate delivery of diagnostics and therapeutics to least advantaged populations. CADT is repurposing affordable drugs to manage cancers through high quality clinical trials and carrying out technology transfer for manufacture of diagnostics through social enterprise.