Danish Malik PhD

Dr Danish Malik is a Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering. His research applies principles of chemical engineering science to problems in healthcare and the life sciences. His focus is on the rational engineering and design of devices/systems/processes for environmental decontamination, detection of pathogenic agents, particularly Clostridium difficile, using bacteriophages for diagnostic (e.g. reporter phages) and therapeutic applications. Research in the area of diagnostics for healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) has looked at the practical implementation of environmental hygiene surveillance monitoring systems in several NHS showcase hospitals. These have used enzyme-based biosensors coupled with statistical process control strategies and incorporated behaviour change approaches to combat HCAI.