Lance Turtle BSc, PhD, MBBS, MRCP, DTMH

Dr. Lance Turtle is a Wellcome fellow, reader, and honorary consultant in infectious diseases at the University of Liverpool Institute of Infection and Global Health and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital Tropical and Infectious Disease Unit.

Lance Turtle trained in medicine at University College London where he was an early student on the UCL MB Ph.D. course, working on glycolipids from M. tuberculosis. He did higher specialist training in infectious diseases in London and Liverpool, and in 2009 was awarded a Wellcome fellowship to study T cell responses to Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) in India.

Since then, Lance Turtle has developed expertise in arbovirus infections, working on the immunological interactions between flaviviruses (e.g. JEV, dengue, yellow fever) with Professor Tom Solomon (Liverpool) and Professor Paul Klenerman (Oxford).