Institute: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Biography
Elena Mitsi is a Senior Research Associate in the Oxford Vaccine Group, at the University of Oxford. In 2020, she completed her PhD at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, which focused on understanding whether bacterial and viral infections contained in the nose can induce immunity in the lung. She leads the Immunology research of the Experimental Human Pneumococcal Challenge (EHPC model). She recently co-developed an RSV-pneumococcus Controlled Human Co-Infection Model.
Her research focuses on host-pathogen interactions, respiratory pathogen transmission, and the potential of respiratory mucosal cellular reservoirs to confer protection against infection and disease. She also uses lung infection models to better study lung diseases.
Web Links of Interest, including key publications
Elena Mitsi - Department of Paediatrics