Elena Mitsi
Dr Elena Mitsi is a Senior Research Associate based in Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK. She obtained her PhD in 2019 in the field of mucosal immunology from LSTM, Liverpool UK. Her PhD work was focused on the effect of S. pneumoniae nasopharyngeal colonisation on human lung immune landscape, exploring innate and adaptive immune responses to pneumococcus using a human pneumococcal challenge model. Her current work is more targeted on bacterial and viral respiratory co-infections and aims to understand the mechanisms that influence susceptibility to respiratory infections and study pathogens interaction and host immune mechanisms during coinfection.
During the COVID-19 pandemic Dr Mitsi led on two large-scale studies of COVID-19, which aimed to a) assess severity and immunity during SARS-CoV-2 and S. pneumoniae co-infection and b) study the breadth and duration of memory responses to SARS-CoV-2 in blood and lung.
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