Dr Vanessa Yardley
Assistant Professor
A member of staff and a student at LSHTM since the early 1990's, working in a kinetoplastid drug discovery group. Collaborating with over 100 stakeholders during this time, across academia and Pharma, to identify new therapies for NTDS and malaria.
Affiliations
Centres
Teaching
Module Organiser for core module in Parasitology & Entomology for MSc students.
Contributing lecturer, kinetoplastid and NTD chemotherapy, on other MSc modules.
Co-organiser of MSc Field Trip (1 week)
Lead educator and developer of KalalCORE MOOC ( Control & Treatment of Visceral Leishmaniasis)
Research
Drug discovery and development
In vitro and in vivo models of infection to identify novel compounds and regimens to treat kinetoplastid infections. Use of PK PD sampling to inform drug activity in models and development of techniques to better predict outcomes in human infection.