Prof Lance Turtle (PhD FRCP DTMH) is a Chair in Immunity and Infectious Diseases, Honorary Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases, Deputy Head of Department, Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Liverpool

He trained in medicine at University College London where he was an early student on the UCL MB PhD 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, he 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).

In 2017, Dr Turtle was awarded a Wellcome career development fellowship, again studying adaptive immunity to Japanese encephalitis.

More recently, he has started working on other arboviruses, including Zika and Chikungunya viruses.

Current research interests include pathogenesis of arboviral disease, neurological infections, immunity to infection, vaccines and immune cross reactivity between flaviviruses.

His work has been funded by the Wellcome Trust, NIHR, EU Horizon 2020, and the UK Dept. of Health (innovate UK). Other clinical interests include brain infections and infections in immunocompromised patients.