Anastasia A. Theodosiou

Anastasia is an Infectious Diseases and Microbiology doctor, and an Academic Clinical Lecturer at the University of Glasgow. Her research focus is the human microbiome and whether it can be modified to promote health, especially in pregnancy and childhood.

For her MRC-funded PhD at the University of Southampton, she was the Principal Investigator on the world's first human challenge study in pregnancy, in which pregnant women were 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 policy, and has an MPhil from the University of Cambridge on the political history of abortion, IVF and embryo research in the UK.