About Us

Angus leads the strategic agenda of I2I and manages the relationships with all major stakeholders. His role is focussed on finding stakeholder consensus on shared challenges and catalysing solutions to these. Prior to this role, he was Senior Malaria Advisor at the President’s Malaria Initiative. He formerly served as UNICEF’s Regional Malaria Advisor in Angola, as PSI’s Deputy Director of Malaria and Child Survival, and as a Senior Technical Advisor at USAID/PMI. Angus holds a PhD from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Arianna joined the I2I Project Team in April 2022 as Programme Manager. She has previously covered a similar role at the Centre for Snakebite Research and Intervention at LSTM. With 15 years’ experience in the Research and International Development sector, with an overall understanding of all the phases related to a project, from the early planning and submission to the project closure, and from both a Research Support Services and a Project Management perspective. Arianna has coordinated the work of multidisciplinary and international consortia, including private and public bodies, and monitored important budgets making sure that funds were spent in accordance with the terms of the funding body and within the project activity plan. Before moving to the UK Arianna has worked for ten years as EU Project Manager at Sapienza University of Rome. She has graduated in 2008 in Foreign Languages and Literatures and has an MA in Entrepreneurship and Human Resources Management, both from the University of Perugia.

Dr Robert Sloss obtained his Doctorate on the Biochemistry of Plant Diseases from Imperial College, London University.   His career has spanned Technical, Research and senior commercial roles in Multinational companies including Pharmacia, ICI, Zeneca and Avecia.  These roles included Technical Management, International Research and Development Manager and Marketing Director.   He gained considerable experience in New Product development from idea generation to launch.   He spent 9 years as Portfolio Manager at IVCC, with the aim is to develop innovative approaches to control vector borne diseases by targeting the disease carrying vectors.   This gave him experience in using donor funding to work with Industrial and academic partners to develop innovative new products.   Robert is now retired and runs his own consultancy business.  

Rosemary leads the Methods Validation workstream of I2I. She is working with the Technical Team to identify areas of methodological weakness in the development and evaluation of vector control tools and seek to address these gaps through the development of consensus protocols, experimental validation of new and existing methods, and discussion with stakeholders to map out key areas of concern and generate consensus on solutions. She is a Programme Manager in the Vector Biology Department of LSTM, working with Hilary Ranson on research into insecticide resistance mechanisms and their impacts on vector control, and with industry partners to screen and evaluate the potential of new insecticides, formulations and products as well as application equipment and related technologies.

Giorgio is a Research Assistant working for I2I and also the Hilary Ranson Group. Their focus is on method development and optimisation for new and existing vector control tools. They began their career graduating from Liverpool University in 2015 with a BSc (Hons) Tropical Disease Biology. They then went on to complete an MSc in Molecular Biology of Parasites and Disease Vectors at LSTM. Since completing their MSc they have continued to undertake scientific research in the field of vector biology at LSTM. Through this they have helped contribute to numerous research projects and publications looking at developing new methodologies for novel and repurposed chemistries in vector control. They also help run the LSTM Vector Biology Department twitter account (@LSTMVector) and is a leading member of the LGBTQ+ committee where they serves as their representative on the school wide Equality Diversity and Inclusion committee.

Charlotte joined I2I as Programme Coordinator in July 2023. Previously, Charlotte was a Senior Administrator in the Postgraduate Researcher Support Team in the faculty of Education at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine where she worked for 5 years supporting postgraduate research students from all over the world. She has 18 years experience in the Higher and Further Education sectors with roles involving recruiting and supporting international students, undergraduate admissions, events management, business administration and Human Resources.

Jack Gillespie joined LSTM’s Vector Biology Department as a Research Technician in 2021. Jack’s projects with Innovation to Impact (I2I) are focussed on validating current methods and testing potential vector controls. Jack was awarded an MSci Evolutionary Biology at the University of Exeter in 2019. Jack’s master’s thesis was on testing antibiotic dosing regimens, using a pulsed dosage strategy to exploit fitness costs to prevent antibiotic resistance. He has previously worked in the NHS as a Medical Lab Assistant.

Katherine is working with Innovation to Impact (I2I) to review and validate methods employed to evaluate current and future vector control tools. She joined LSTM’s Vector Biology Department as a Research Assistant in 2015, after completing an MSc in Biology and Control of Parasites and Disease Vectors. Katherine completed her PhD in 2022 which involved research exploring the impact of insecticide resistant and parasite infection on mosquito behaviour, life history traits and vectorial capacity.

Frank began working with I2I in 2022 as a data analyst and to develop statistical methods to validate current and future vector control tools. Frank joined LSTM in 2018 as a PhD student after completing an MRes in Translational and Quantitative Methods at the University of Lancaster. Frank’s thesis focused on the durability of Insecticide Treated Nets (ITNs) and the host-seeking behaviour of malaria vectors as they attempted to enter damaged nets. In 2021, Frank was selected for the Gates Notes Deep Dive on malaria eradication to discuss the future of malaria control with Bill Gates and leading experts in the field.

Annabel Murphy is a Research Assistant working for I2I focusing on method development and optimisation of new and existing vector control tools. She joined LSTM’s Vector Biology Department in 2017 as a Research Assistant and has worked on projects which include investigating  ‘appropriate tests for the evaluation of behavioural, delayed and sub-lethal effects of insecticides on mosquitoes’ funded by the Gates Foundation and as part of the Liverpool Insect Testing Establishment (LITE) working on a range of projects related to insecticide resistance in mosquito vectors of malaria in development by the Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC). She has also worked in the Clinical Sciences group working on the Experimental Human Pheumococcal Carriage model. Prior to working at LSTM Annabel obtained a BSc in combined honours Biological Sciences from the University of Liverpool and an MSc in Molecular Biology of Parasites and Disease Vectors from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.