Rate My Professor Daniel Pan

Dr Daniel Pan is a NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer at the University of Leicester and a Resident Physician (Specialist Registrar) in Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. He trained in Medicine at Imperial College London and completed his Academic Foundation Programme and Core Medical Training in Yorkshire and London before joining the University of Leicester in 2019 as an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow and Specialist Registrar. From 2022 to 2025, he undertook an NIHR-supported Doctoral Research Fellowship focused on the transmission of respiratory viruses.

Dr Pan’s research centres on respiratory viral infections, with particular emphasis on COVID-19 transmission dynamics, ethnic disparities in outcomes, and the use of innovative sampling methods such as facemask sampling to study exhaled viral loads. He has led major studies including BE-DIRECT and COVMASK, contributed to international guideline development with the World Health Organization on ethnic disparities in COVID-19 outcomes, and informed UK government policy through national core studies on transmission and immunity. He has authored over 120 publications with an h-index of 32 and is recognised as a top-cited scientist. His honours include the 2021 Forbes 30 under 30 Europe list in healthcare, the Turner-Warwick lectureship from the Royal College of Physicians (delivered twice), the 2025 Barnett Christie Lecture from the British Infection Association, and the 2026 Young Investigator Award from the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. He co-chairs the NIHR Infection Trainee Network and holds fellowships with the Royal Society for Public Health, the Royal Society of Medicine, and the Royal Statistical Society.