Sanjeev Krishna

Sanjeev Krishna is Professor of Molecular Parasitology and Professor of Medicine. In 2007 he was awarded an ScD at the University of Cambridge. In 1994 he was awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellowship at St George’s, University of London.

Professor Krishna read natural sciences at University of Cambridge and completed a medical degree at University of Oxford in 1982. He 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 DPhil at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford.

Prof Krishna is also a consultant physician in infectious diseases at St George’s Hospital and chairs the Technical Advisory Group for sleeping sickness for the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND). He sits on a Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Selection Panel and on the Editorial Boards of a number of journals including PLoS Medicine Journal of Infectious Diseases, section editor of BMC Infectious Diseases, Editorial Advisor the Lancet, Board for British Medical Bulletin. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.