Discovered diagnostic test for childhood tuberculosis
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Discovered diagnostic test for childhood tuberculosis

Myrsini Kaforou is a Research Assistant in Bioinformatics and a PhD candidate at the Department of Genomics of Common Disease at the School of Public Health.

She received an MSc in Bioinformatics and Theoretical Systems Biology from Imperial College London in 2010 after graduating from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), with a specialisation in Biomedicine.

Currently her research focuses on the identification of host biomarkers for infectious diseases from genomic data and she is particularly interested in the integration of multiple “omics” datasets to improve diagnosis and understanding of the host response to disease. She is a member of the ILULU consortium working towards the development of a test for tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa funded by an EU Action for Diseases of Poverty program and EUCLIDS consortium, which aims to elucidate the factors that determine susceptibility and severity in life-threatening bacterial infections of childhood, funded by the European Commission FP7.

Myrsini Kaforou is a Research Assistant in Bioinformatics and a PhD candidate at the Department of Genomics of Common Disease at the School of Public Health.

She received an MSc in Bioinformatics and Theoretical Systems Biology from Imperial College London in 2010 after graduating from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), with a specialisation in Biomedicine.

Currently her research focuses on the identification of host biomarkers for infectious diseases from genomic data and she is particularly interested in the integration of multiple “omics” datasets to improve diagnosis and understanding of the host response to disease. She is a member of the ILULU consortium working towards the development of a test for tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa funded by an EU Action for Diseases of Poverty program and EUCLIDS consortium, which aims to elucidate the factors that determine susceptibility and severity in life-threatening bacterial infections of childhood, funded by the European Commission FP7.

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