Professor Saul Faust MA, MBBS, FRCPCH, PhD, FHEA
Professor of Paediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Director, Southampton NIHR Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility
Professor Saul Faust is Professor of Paediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases within Medicine at the University of Southampton.
I combine a portfolio of active research into bridging the clinical and laboratory interface in paediatric and adult infectious diseases, immunology and respiratory medicine, together with early and late phase clinical trials; and a clinical research management and governance role as Director of the Southampton NIHR Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility
Saul N Faust is Professor of Paediatric Immunology & Infectious Diseases and Director of the Southampton NIHR Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility.
As an MRC Clinical Training Fellow in Paediatric Intensive Care & Infectious Diseases and then Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London, he completed his PhD on the pathophysiology of coagulation abnormalities in meningococcal sepsis, work that led directly to clinical trials in paediatric intensive care. Current projects include work to bridge the clinical-laboratory interface in paediatric and adult infectious diseases, immunology and respiratory medicine (including biofilm-related clinical diseases), developing local and national collaborative clinical trials in paediatric infectious diseases, and conducting paediatric and adult vaccine trials as part of the UK academic paediatric vaccine group.
Professor Faust is currently Chair of the UK NIHR Medicines for Children Clinical Specialty Group Chairs' Forum and the Clinical Speciality Group for Allergy, Infectious Diseases and Immunity. He is Wessex Clinical Research Network Specialty Lead for Paediatrics and co-Director of the South Central Children’s Research Network (SoCCR).
Qualifications
BA (MA) Social & Political Sciences, Cambridge University (1990 (1995))
MB BS, University of London (1993)
Membership of Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health (1996)
Fellow of Higher Education Academy (previously Institute of Learning & Teaching in Higher Education) (2001)
PhD, Imperial College, London (2005)
Certificate of Advanced Study in Learning & Teaching, Imperial College, London (2006)
Certificate of Good Clinical Practice, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine (2007)
Appointments held
Professor and Honorary Consultant of Paediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Director, NIHR Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, University of Southampton