Kirsty  Le Doare

Kirsty Le Doare

Dr Kirsty Le Doare is an Associate Professor and Honorary Paediatric Infectious Diseases Consultant at the Centre for Infection and Immunity at St George’s, University of London. Her main research interests are age-related immune responses to infectious diseases, in neonates. She is interested in improving our knowledge of how maternal antibody and immune factors in blood and breast milk is passed to babies and how this protects them from colonisation and disease, and how we might improve this with vaccination.