Manu Shankar-Hari

Manu undertook a period of clinical training in Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Trust, University College London Hospital NHS Trust, The Royal Free Hospital, St Mary's Hospital, and at a number of regional district general hospitals around London. He completed MSc in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Manu was awarded Ph.D. in Immunology, for his research into in B-lymphocyte and immunoglobulins biology in sepsis, at King's College London.

He was appointed as a tenured consultant physician in Intensive Care Medicine at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in 2009. Manu was awarded the prestigious NIHR Clinician Scientist Award in 2016. He was recognized for his contributions to sepsis research with the ANZICS Intensive Care Global rising star award in 2017 and International Sepsis Forum Lowry Fink Fellowship in 2019.

Currently, Manu leads a translational research group, located within the School of Immunology and Microbial Sciences. His group is funded primarily by grants from the NIHR and the MRC-EME program.

His research explores ways to improve outcomes in adult critically ill patients with sepsis and with ARDS, by linking the illness immunobiology to interventional trial design.