Daniel Pan –

Fellow

Daniel Pan is an NIHR academic clinical lecturer at the University of Leicester and an honorary specialist registrar in infectious diseases and general internal medicine at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. His research focuses on respiratory-virus transmission and the development of clinically useful measures of individual infectiousness. He combines prospective clinical studies, laboratory sampling and epidemiological analysis to investigate how viral kinetics in the respiratory tract and exhaled breath relate to onward transmission. He has led large field studies of SARS-CoV-2 among healthcare workers, households and hospital patients, with his work extending to influenza, respiratory syncytial virus and measles. A parallel strand of his research examines ethnic inequalities in infection risk and the structural factors shaping exposure.

Daniel is particularly interested in bridging clinical infection research and mathematical modelling: designing model-ready clinical studies, improving estimates of infectiousness and transmission, and translating model outputs into decisions on testing, isolation, vaccination, antiviral treatment and infection prevention.