Saul N. Faust MA, MBBS, FRCPCH, PhD, FHEA

Saul N Faust is a Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology 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 Ph.D. on the pathophysiology of coagulation abnormalities in meningococcal sepsis, work that led directly to clinical trials in pediatric intensive care. Current projects include work to bridge the clinical-laboratory interface in pediatric and adult infectious diseases, immunology and respiratory medicine (including biofilm-related clinical diseases), developing local and national collaborative clinical trials in pediatric infectious diseases, and conducting pediatric and adult vaccine trials as part of the UK academic pediatric vaccine group.

SF 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).