Sanjeev Krishna - Coordinator of Cluster Four

I read Natural Sciences at Cambridge and completed a medical degree at Oxford in 1982. I began clinical studies on malaria in the Wellcome Trust Unit in Thailand as a medical student, and continued with laboratory studies during a DPhil at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine. In 1994 I was awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellowship at St. George’s and in 2007 an ScD by Cambridge University. My research interests encompass cellular and molecular as well as clinical studies. I work on understanding how antimalarials kill parasites, how parasites become resistant to different classes of antimalarial, and on discovery studies for new antimalarials and new drug targets. I also carry out studies on pathophysiology and treatment of malaria.