undertake my PhD in Antimicrobial Pharmacology at the University of Liverpool. Prior to this I was an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow within the same group and had completed ST3 in Infectious Diseases/Medical Microbiology training before going out of programme.

I completed my MBChB at the University of Dundee in 2017, undertaking an intercalated BSc in Immunity and Infection at Imperial College London with a laboratory research project. I then completed the Academic Foundation Programme in the Scottish Highlands, followed by two years out of training where I completed my DTM&H in East Africa with LSHTM and worked as a Clinical Fellow in Infectious Diseases in Glasgow. Although I have followed a semi-traditional route in terms of academic training, I haven’t always progressed directly at each stage and have relocated at several points to pursue infection research!

working on malaria vaccine clinical trials and Controlled Human Malaria Infection studies at the University of Oxford. I am currently undertaking a Doctor of Medicine degree developing a human challenge model for relapsing P. vivax malaria and exploring natural immunity to P. falciparum through a repeat challenge model.

After completing my medical training at the University of St Andrews and the University of Dundee, I completed the Academic Foundation Programme in NHS Tayside. I subsequently worked in Edinburgh as a Clinical Research Fellow on COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials before doing Internal Medicine Training.

I have a keen interest in infectious diseases and global health. I spent 4 months on my elective in Malawi and completed the DTM&H at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. I intend to pursue higher speciality training in Infectious Diseases following my degree.

the University of Leeds. My PhD and current research focus on how the gut microbiome can influence human health and disease, particularly in relation to autoimmune/inflammatory conditions and the dissemination of AMR.

Prior to my medical degree, I completed an undergraduate degree in microbiology. During foundation training, I completed an academic post at the Health Economics Research Centre in Oxford, later moving to Leeds for an Academic Clinical Fellowship, where I have remained. My Versus Arthritis-funded PhD fellowship focused on investigating the gut microbiome in individuals at risk of rheumatoid arthritis, which included a 6-month bioinformatics industry placement.

in training in the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Deanery, and am currently undertaking pre-doctoral research with the support of the University Hospitals Sussex charity. My research interests focus on the care of patients who inject drugs with injecting related infections, health equity, public health and missingness in infectious diseases. I also hold honorary positions with UK Health Security Agency and Brighton and Sussex Medical School.

I am passionate about growing the network and facilitating support for trainees new to research, and making research accessible at every level. I will be supporting the BIA ECRC mentorship scheme.

pursuing a career in infectious diseases. I previously worked with the Liverpool Infection Neuroscience Lab for my academic foundation programme. I gained a lot by taking part in the BIA mentorship scheme last year and I am looking forward to improving the scheme this year so more people can benefit from the excellent research community in the BIA.

microbiology in Oxford. My research focusses on hepatitis B virus infection, how we can predict who will develop liver disease, and how we can implement strategies to prevent mother to child transmission in low resource settings. 

I originally studied graduate medicine at St Georges University of London, qualifying in 2010. Following my foundation years in Bournemouth, I relocated to Oxford where I took up an NIHR academic clinical fellowship. I worked on viral hepatitis and collaborated with UKHSA to use next generation sequencing in outbreak situations. I was awarded a Wellcome Trust DPhil in 2021 and relocated to KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kenya. 

Here I set up and ran a research programme recruiting people living with HBV and correlating HBV biomarkers and genomic sequence with patient outcome. I completed my DPhil in 2025, to return to clinical training. I have taken rather a scenic route having had maternity leave and working part time for many years, but this hasn’t stopped me being successful in my research career. I am enthusiastic about encouraging others down this path.

the Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford, and a Specialty Registrar in Infectious Diseases and Virology in London. I completed my undergraduate medical training at the University of Leeds, followed by an Academic Foundation Programme in Liverpool and an Academic Clinical Fellowship in London.

I’m interested in using transcriptomic and genomic data to better understand variation in disease phenotype and severity among patients with infectious diseases, with a particular interest in translating these insights into therapeutic strategies. My current work aims to identify patients with severe dengue infection who are most likely to benefit from host-directed therapies, and I also contribute to a global platform trial investigating treatments for patients hospitalised with dengue. 

I’ll be helping to facilitate collaboration between the BIA ECR committee and the National Infection Teams Collaborative for Audit and Research (NITCAR), and I’m excited to develop the network of the ECR and to promote opportunities for early career researchers to engage in research.

Southampton. I gained research experience during this undergraduate training via contributing to a large paediatric pneumococcal carriage study which examined the impact of introducing the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine into the UK vaccine schedule. Following Core Medical Training, I worked for 2 years as a Clinical Research Fellow in the Department of Infection based in Southampton, to gain research experience and explore clinical academic career pathways. I gained clinical trial experience through working on two randomised controlled trials assessing the clinical impact of molecular point-of-care testing for infection in acute care pathways. Following this fellow job, I obtained a training number as a NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology where I developed further diagnostic accuracy study experience. More recently I obtained a NIHR Biomedical Research Centre Pre-Doctoral Bridging Fellowship which I have used to design and undertake preparatory work for a doctoral fellowship application.