Dr. Matthew Kain

My PhD is investigating vascular leak in dengue and developing a novel model of vascular leak that can be used in future early-phase interventional trials. This will include examining biomarkers that could be used as future secondary endpoints and other exploratory investigation. I will conduct an observational study in Vietnam and spend time at the WHO Arbovirus Collaborating Centre at the University of Nagasaki, Japan. I am also conducting seroprevalence studies in military populations from Japan and Nepal, as well as validating a novel point-of-care molecular platform for dengue. Supervision from Prof Tom Fletcher (LSTM), Dr Stephen Woolley (LSTM), Prof Saye Khoo (UoL), Prof Lay Myint Yoshida (Nagasaki), Prof Sophie Yacoub (Oxford), Dr Pavel Mozgunov (Cambridge).

Royal Navy Specialist Registrar in Tropical Medicine and General Internal Medicine. Medical degree from University of Oxford in 2015, before starting clinical training at the Royal Centre of Defence Medicine, Birmingham. Deployment with the Royal Navy around the globe followed, before entering Internal Medicine training at Frimley Park (2020) and Combined Infection Training in Northwest London (2024). MRCP(UK) 2021 and DTMH (2023).

Faculty, Military Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine course (2023-present).