Saul Faust FRCPCH PhD OBE, is Professor of Paediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Southampton, Director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Southampton Clinical Research Facility, Clinical Director of the Wessex Local Clinical Research Network and a NIHR Senior Investigator.
Saul is a clinical researcher with projects bridging the clinical-laboratory interface, developing local and national collaborative clinical trials for paediatric and adult vaccines and antimicrobials.
Saul is a co-Director of the National Immunisation Schedule Evaluation Consortium (NISEC) and is UK Chief Investigator for the UK national COV-BOOST trial. Saul chairs the UK Clinical Research Facilities Directors Group, the University Hospital Association R&D Directors Group, and is a member of the National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Programme Commissioning Committee.
Outside of research, Saul chaired the UK NICE Guideline Committees for sepsis in children and adults (2016) and for Lyme Disease (2018). He is NHS England national clinical lead for Paediatric Allergy, Immunology and Infectious Diseases specialist commissioning. Saul is a member of the current NICE guideline group revising Meningitis (bacterial) and meningococcal disease: recognition, diagnosis and management.