Maitreyi Shivkumar

Maitreyi Shivkumar is a Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology in the Leicester School of Pharmacy at De Montfort University. Her research interests are in understanding host-pathogen interactions, with a focus on virology. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge on host entry and dissemination of herpesviruses, and was a postdoctoral researcher at University College London studying HIV-1 spread, before joining De Montfort University in 2019.