Biography

Name: Professor Sanjeev Krishna
Position: Professor of molecular parasitology and medicine
Research centre: Infection and Immunity
Division: Clinical Sciences

Tel: +44(0)208 725 5836
email: s.krishna@sgul.ac.uk

Research interests

Molecular and clinical aspects of tropical and other infectious diseases.

Biography

My research interests encompass cellular and molecular, as well as clinical studies. In 2007 I was awarded an Sc.D. by Cambridge University and in 1994 I was awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellowship at St George’s.

I read natural sciences at University of Cambridge and completed a medical degree at University of Oxford in 1982.

I began clinical studies on malaria at the Wellcome Trust Unit in Thailand as a medical student and continued with laboratory studies while working towards a D.Phil. at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford.

More recently I have been working on understanding how antimalarials kill parasites and how parasites become resistant to different classes of antimalarials, as well as looking for new antimalarials and new drug targets. I also carry out studies on the effects of malaria and on treatments for the disease. I have in interest in diagnosis of infectious diseases including sleeping sickness and Clostrodium difficile.