Mona Bajaj-elliott PhD

Mona is Senior Lecturer in Infectious Diseases and Mucosal Immunology at the Institute of Child Health. After a degree in Biochemistry, she conducted her PhD under the supervision of Sir Tom Blundell at Birkbeck College, London where her interest in protein structure and function was ignited. After post-doctoral stints at Cancer Research UK and Kings College, London she spent 3 years working in industry. In 1998, she was appointed Lecturer in Adult Gastroenterology, Barts and the London Medical School and in 2002 joined ICH. Her current research interest is to better our understanding of how the gut mucosal immune system is able to distinguish between pathogens and the harmless commensals that live in their trillions in the human colon. Mona is very passionate about educating the next generation of scientists and has been Director of the MRes in Biomedicine since 2007, a responsibility she is wholeheartedly enjoying.