Professor Geoffrey Pasvol

Professor of Infection & Tropical Medicine

Director of the Imperial Wellcome Centre for Clinical Tropical Medicine

Clinical Dean of the Faculty of Medicine

 

Geoffrey Pasvol obtained his medical degree from the University of Cape Town in 1972.  He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at St Catherines and Wolfson Colleges at Oxford  and obtained his D Phil from the University of Oxford in 1977 on the subject of the cellular mechanisms for the protection by the haemoglobinopathies against malaria.   He gained his Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 1975 and Fellowship in 1990.

 In 1983/4 he received an MRC Travelling Fellowship and was a Research Associate at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, USA.  He was then appointed a Wellcome Senior Fellow at the University of Oxford and John Radcliffe Hospital from 1984 to 1988.  In 1988 he became the Scientific Leader of the Wellcome Trust Research Unit on the Kenyan coast in Kilifi until 1990. 

 He was appointed as Professor in Infection & Tropical Medicine, Imperial College London in 1990.   His main research interests are in the pathogenesis of severe malaria as well as clinical aspects of tuberculosis. He is currently Director of the Imperial College Wellcome Centre for Clinical Tropical Medicine, Clinical Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Secretary of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.