Anastasia Theodosiou

Anastasia is an Infectious Diseases and Microbiology doctor, and MRC Clinical Research Training Fellow at the University of Southampton. Her research interests include the human microbiome, and whether the microbiome can be modified to promote health, especially in pregnancy and childhood. She is the Prinipal Investigator on a human challenge study in which pregnant women are given nose drops containing harmless bacteria, to study the effect on the newborn microbiome. 
Anastasia is passionate about medical education and public engagement, and she has won national awards for research presentations and science writing. She is especially interested in the intersection between medicine and social science, and has an MPhil from the University of Cambridge in the political history of abortion, IVF and embryo research in the UK.