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Dr Nayia Petousi

Senior Research Fellow

Senior Clinical Research Fellow & Consultant Respiratory Physician

Department of Medicine

DPhil (Oxford)

Dr Nayia Petousi is a Senior Clinical Researcher in Respiratory Medicine, at the University of Oxford and a Consultant Respiratory Physician in the Special Airways Clinic at Oxford University Hospitals. She holds a first class Natural Sciences Physiology degree and a degree in Medicine from the University of Cambridge, and a Dphil in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Oxford, supervised by Professors Sir Peter Ratcliffe and Peter Robbins.

Her research interests are in cardiorespiratory physiology, type-2 inflammation and airways diseases. She leads translational research on physiological phenotyping of airways diseases using novel non-invasive physiological techniques, with the overarching aim to improve early disease detection, more accurately assess disease progression or treatment response, and identify new treatable traits for better targeting treatment to airways patients. She is particularly interested in the role of type-2 inflammation as a driver of progressive respiratory morbidity and whether early disease detection and intervention can prevent airway remodelling and disease progression (Predict & Prevent).

She supervises 2 DPhil students, a post-doc, clinical fellows and a number of research nurses in her team.