Malcolm Richardson

Professor Malcolm Richardson is the ex-Director of the NHS Mycology Reference Centre, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, UK, but continues to work as a Consultant Clinical Scientist in Medical Mycology, and holds an affiliate position as Honorary Professor of Medical Mycology at the University of Manchester. In 2017 the Manchester Mycology Reference Centre became the first European Confederation of Medical Mycology Centre of Excellence (Diamond Status) in the world.

Professor Richardson is an elected Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and the Royal Society of Biology. His clinical and laboratory investigations over 50 years have focused on many aspects of the diagnosis, pathogenicity, and epidemiology of superficial and systemic fungal infections. More recently he has applied his diagnostic interests to investigate the impact of indoor moulds on human health.

He has published over 500 original articles, book chapters and reviews and is the author or editor of fifteen mycological textbooks and handbooks including: Fungal Infection in the Compromised Patient (1982,1991), Medical Mycology – A Practical Approach (1989), Fungal Infection: Diagnosis and Management (1993, 1997, 2003,2012), Therapeutic Guidelines in Systemic Fungal Infection (1998, 2001,2003,2007), The Pocket Guide to Fungal infection (2000, 2006), Fast Facts: Superficial Fungal Infections (2000), Fungal Infection and Critical Care Medicine(2008) and Illustrative Cases in Medical Mycology iBook (2016). In 2024 he reached more than 30,000 citations and an h-index of 77.

His professional duties have included being Editor-in-Chief of Critical Reviews in Microbiology (2008-2014), Editor for Medical Mycology and the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy and acting as an advisor to the World Health Organisation’s Committee on Moulds and Health. Professor Richardson has been General Secretary of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM) from 2009 to 2015, and ISHAM President from 2015 to 2018. He was elected Fellow of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology Academy in 2017. Currently, he is the President of the British Society for Medical Mycology. Professor Richardson is an enthusiastic teacher and is closely involved with the University of Manchester undergraduate and postgraduate educational programmes.