Prof. Dr. med. Daniel Paris, Associate Professor, MD, PhD, DTMH
Function(s)
Medical Director,
Head of Department
Organisational Entity
Medicine
Daniel Paris heads the Translational Diagnostics and Therapeutics research group at Swiss TPH and is an Associate Professor of Tropical and Travel Medicine at the University of Basel. He headed the Department of Medicine at Swiss TPH for almost a decade, during which time he also led the Medicines Development Unit. He is a physician and clinical researcher and acts as Medical Director for industry-related trials.
Paris graduated in human medicine from the University of Zürich in 1996 and pursued a career combining internal medicine with infectious and tropical diseases. He spent 12 years working in clinical research in Southeast Asia for the University of Oxford as coordinator of clinical tropical medicine research focusing on tropical rickettsial illnesses, diagnostics, clinical trials and causes-of-fever studies. He completed his PhD in clinical tropical medicine in 2011 (Open University) and was appointed Associate Professor in 2014 (University of Oxford). He is also a Visiting Professor in Thailand since 2015 (Mahidol University).
Paris is considered an internationally recognized expert and researcher in the field of tropical and travel medicine. His areas of interest include the causes of endemic febrile diseases, the evaluation and development of diagnostic methods, as well as clinical trials and translational research for neglected tropical diseases affecting rural populations worldwide.