Dr Hataf Khan is a Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow in the Department of Infectious Diseases, School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences. He gained his PhD in 2019 from University College London under the supervision of Professor Greg Towers. His thesis work characterised the antagonism of innate immunity by HIV-1 accessory protein Vpr.

Hataf joined the Malim lab in 2019 to investigate how NCOA7 inhibits endocytic virus entry. He was awarded a Wellcome Early Career Award in 2023 to further develop his research in host-pathogen interactions.