Dr Calvin Tiengwe

Dr. Calvin Tiengwe is a Sir Henry Dale Research Fellow at Imperial College London. His research focuses on iron homeostasis in African trypanosomes, a parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and related diseases in livestock and wild animals. His fellowship is funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society, and he has been an independent investigator since 2018. Prior to this, he completed his PhD at the University of Glasgow, followed by two consecutive postdoctoral fellowships at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Baltimore, MD) and SUNY Buffalo (NY), USA. For more information about his background and current research interests, visit https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/c.tiengwe