Dr Jethro Herberg Clinical senior lecturer and honorary consultant, paediatric infectious disease

Background

Dr Jethro Herberg is a clinician-academic working at Imperial College London and St Mary's Hospital. He studied biochemistry at Oxford University and undertook a PhD in immunology before training in medicine at University College London, later specialising in paediatric infectious diseases. His clinical interests cover the range of specialist paediatric infectious disease problems, with a particular interest in Kawasaki disease.

Expertise

Kawasaki disease, paediatric infectious diseases

Research & publications

Dr Herberg's research focuses on the discovery and clinical translation of host biomarkers for febrile children with infectious and inflammatory conditions. Current projects include the EUCLIDS study (www.euclids-project.eu), which investigates genetic predisposition to severe sepsis, and the PERFORM study (www.perform2020.eu), which aims to validate identified host RNA and protein biomarkers of bacterial, viral and inflammatory illness in a large study of febrile children.