Thushan de Silva is an Infectious Diseases Clinician Scientist with a programme of research centred around clinical discovery science in the UK and Africa, with interests in Strep A and respiratory viruses. His group applies a broad range of methods including human immunology, epidemiology, molecular diagnostics and genomics, to establish how pathogens interact with human hosts at population and individual levels. Thushan is mainly based at the University of Sheffield, UK, where he is co-director of the Florey Institute of Infection. He is also a Principal Investigator in the Vaccines and Immunity Theme at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia.