Dr. Kevin Tyler University of East Anglia, UK

Protozoan parasites cause many of the world's worst diseases and are amongst the greatest sources of suffering and death in humans and livestock. Compared with bacterial and viral infections, researching the biology of these organisms with a view to deriving effective drugs, vaccines and diagnostics has been long neglected.... read more

Kevin Tyler has focused on this group of organisms for many years and his research investigates interaction between these organisms and their hosts, and whether elucidating and disrupting these interactions can provide novel therapies. He takes a genomics led approach to tackling problems associated with a variety of parasite diseases and collaborates in a variety of networks worldwide from Europe to South America, to Africa and the Middle East.

His most recent research has been focused at achieving an understanding of parasite virulence, how and why new virulent lineages emerge, how they can be diagnosed and managed most effectively. He is editor in Chief of the Journal Virulence.