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Dr Elena Mitsi

Junior Research Fellow

Senior Research Associate, Oxford Vaccine Group, Department of Paediatrics

Senior Lecturer in Infection and Immunity (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK)

PhD (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK); MRes and BSc in Biology (University of Patras, Greece) 

Dr 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) and has 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.