Kirsty Mehring-le Doare MD, MSc, PhD, FRCPCH, PGHCE

Professor Kirsty Mehring-Le Doare joined the SGUL from Imperial College London in September 2018 as part of the Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group. She trained as a clinician-scientist in Paediatric Infectious Diseases in the UK, the Gambia, and South Africa. Kirsty holds a Chair in Vaccinology and Immunology and is a Principal Scientist at MRC/UVRI@LSHTM in Uganda where she is developing a maternal vaccine platform and surveillance of pregnancy outcomes in a large urban cohort. She was awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship in 2019.

In the UK and in Uganda her main research interests are age-related immune responses to infectious diseases in pregnant women and their babies. She is interested in improving our knowledge of how maternal antibody in blood and breast milk is passed to babies how this protects them from colonization and disease and how we might improve this with vaccination. Her group leads several clinical trials of investigative vaccines in Uganda. She is jointly appointed to Public Health England as a principal scientist with the Pathogen Immunity Group, Porton Down.