Lottie Brown, MD, MSc

Dr Lottie Brown is a Wellcome Global Health Clinical PhD Fellow at the University of Liverpool. She will be based at the Tropical Medicine Research Centre (TMRC) in Ho Chi Minh City for the duration of her PhD under the supervision of Dr Thùy Lê. Her research focuses on improving the diagnosis and treatment of neglected fungal diseases, with a particular interest in talaromycosis. Her PhD combines laboratory, pharmacokinetic and clinical studies to optimise antifungal therapy and improve outcomes for people with talaromycosis.

Lottie studied pre-clinical medicine at the University of St Andrews before completing her clinical training at the University of Manchester, where early research experience introduced her to medical mycology. She later completed an MSc in Tropical Disease Biology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Following medical school, she undertook an NIHR Academic Foundation Programme at St Thomas’ Hospital, London, and subsequently an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship in Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology at St George’s Hospital and City St George’s, University of London. She has also undertaken research fellowships in Malawi, Nepal, Vietnam and the USA.

Alongside her PhD, Lottie contributes to research on fungal diagnostics and international collaborations. She has been involved in the development of UK national fungal diagnostic and therapeutic drug monitoring guidelines, co-leads three working groups within the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM) Fungal PCR Initiative, and contributed to a World Health Organization application supporting the recognition of fungal keratitis as a neglected tropical disease.

Lottie has authored more than 25 peer-reviewed publications, including first-author papers in The Lancet Infectious Diseases and Clinical Infectious Diseases. She has received several competitive research fellowships and grants and regularly presents her work at national and international scientific meetings.