Sarah Pett

Between 2000-2013 Sarah was based at the Kirby Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales where she lead several international, randomised controlled trials, across more than 60 centres in Australia, Asia, Europe and Latin America. i.e. ESPRIT, SILCAAT (Phase III interleukin-2 studies), START (’when to start Antiretroviral therapy’) and the Phase IV maraviroc (a CCR5 blocker) switch study, MARCH.

She joined the MRC CTU at UCL, Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology and the Institute for Global Health, UCL in September 2013. She has chaired the Infections theme at the MRC CTU at UCL since January 2016. Her academic and clinical research interests fall broadly into 3 main areas, Treatment optimisation for infections, Immunomodulatory therapy for HIV and other infectious diseases; Immunopathogenesis of infections. She is also an Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.