About me:

I am a professor in paediatric infectious diseases with a specific interest in medical mycology. I am co-director of the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology at the University of Exeter and a consultant in paediatric infectious diseases in Great Ormond Street Hospital, London.

My research profile has a strong translational focus and specific areas of interest include the host-fungus interaction in specific patient groups with an emphasis on Aspergillus species; the unique interaction of A. nidulans and the CGD host, Aspergillus infections in people with cystic fibrosis, the development of new management strategies for invasive fungal disease in children, the epidemiology of invasive fungal infections in children, and the pharmacology of antifungals in paediatrics.

I co-lead the clinical mycology theme of the NIHR Exeter Biomedical Research Centre, and I am the director of training of the Exeter BRC. 

I chair the European Paediatric Mycology Network (EPMyN) through which post-graduate courses in Paediatric Mycology are coordinated as well as multi-center European studies to obtain a better insight in the fungal and clinical epidemiology of fungal infections in neonates and children. I am leading the Fungal Infection Working Group within PENTA Child Health and I am a member of the Scientific Steering Group.

I am president-elect of the European Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases. 

Research Group:

dr Emily Chesshyre, clinical research fellow

dr Laura Ferreras-Antolin, clinical research fellow

dr Alison Gifford, clinical PhD fellow

dr Rachel Patel, academic clinical fellow

dr Eva Wooding, academic clinical fellow

Gayathri Chandran, PhD student

Elliot Mahony, PhD student

Qualifications:

1994 MD, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

2004 PhD Medical Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

2014 Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

2018 Fellow of the Academy of the European Council Medical Mycology

Career:

2003 Paediatrician

2005-2012 Consultant Paediatric Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

2009 Visiting Research Fellow, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, US

2012-2013 Associate Professor Paediatric Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

2013 Clinical Reader Medical Mycology, University of Aberdeen, UK

2013-2019 Honorary Consultant Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital, UK

2015-2019 Personal Chair, University of Aberdeen, UK

2016-2019 Co-director MRC Centre for Medical Mycology, University of Aberdeen, UK

2019 Consultant Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London

2019 Chair and co-director MRC Centre for Medical Mycology, University of Exeter, UK