Name: Dr Tihana Bicanic
Position: Wellcome intermediate clinical fellow
Clinical role: Honorary consultant in infectious diseases
Research centre: Infection and Immunity
Division: Clinical Sciences
Room: 2.247
Tel: +44(0)2087255828
email: tbicanic@sgul.ac.uk
Research interests
C neoformans pathogenesis, cryptococcal meningitis in HIV.
Biography
My substantive research training and interest is in Cryptococcus and cryptoccal meningitis. For research leading up to my MD(Res) degree at SGUL, I performed clinical trials of combination antifungal therapy in HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, from 2004 to 2006, under the supervision of Professor Tom Harrison. The clinical isolates obtained from these trials form the basis of my current Wellcome Trust - funded translational research project on the impact of C neoformans phenotype and gene expression on the clinical course and outcome of cryptococcal meningitis, as part of Professor Tom Harrison’s Cryptococcal Meningitis Research Group at SGUL.
I undertook my pre-clinical medical training at Cambridge and clinical training at Oxford. I first became interested in infectious diseases research in 2001, during a three month attachment as a Wellcome Trust clinical research fellow at the Mahidol University-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Thailand, where I assisted with clinical trials in meliodosis and pharmacokinetic studies in malaria. My specialist postgraduate clinical training in microbiology and infectious diseases was based at St George’s Hospital NHS Trust 2002-2009, during which time I undertook a two month clinical research project on the pathophysiology of malaria in children at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Gabon in 2003, under the supervision of Professor Sanjeev Krishna at SGUL.
Achievements and awards
2011 - Member of peer review panel for World Health Organisation (WHO) Cryptococcal Management guidelines.
2010 - Wellcome Intermediate Clinical Fellowship (three years).
2007 - Member of writing panel for Southern African Cryptococcosis treatment guidelines.
2007 - BHIVA/BIS Conference, Edinburgh, best oral research presentation.
2005 - British Infection Society Clinical Fellowship (one year).
2004 - St George’s Hospital Trustees’ research grant.
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