Jonathan Cattrall

Jonathan is a DPhil student at the Pandemic Sciences Institute and the Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford and Specialty Registrar in Infectious Diseases and Virology in London. He is interested in how we can use transcriptomic and genomic data to better understand the diversity of phenotype and varying disease severity between patients with infections, with a focus on translation to therapeutic options for their treatment.

He is a Member of the Royal College of Physicians in London and completed his undergraduate medical training at the University of Leeds.

Jonathan's research training included an Academic Foundation Programme at the University of Liverpool within the Liverpool Brain Infections Group, followed by an Academic Clinical Fellowship at Imperial College in the Sancho-Shimizu lab (Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases). He holds an MRes in Medicine from the University of Leeds and an MSc in Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience from the University of Oxford.

He started his DPhil in 2025 under the supervision of Sophie Yacoub and Julian Knight. Using clinical and transcriptomic data, his project aims to identify patients with severe dengue infection which are most likely to benefit from host-directed therapeutic intervention. He is also supporting his team's work on a global platform trial, investigating therapeutics for patients hospitalised with dengue.

His DPhil is supported by the Oxford-MRC Doctoral Training Partnership.