INVITED SPEAKER

Prof Shiranee Sriskandan

Shiranee Sriskandan is a Clinical Professor of Infectious Diseases at Imperial College London. She is also co-Director of Imperial's Centre for Bacterial Resistance Biology (CBRB) and leads research on Streptococcus pyogenes. Research in her group is driven by unexpected changes in either the bacteria causing disease, or the disease itself, in particular patient disease severity or epidemiology. This has led to work on streptococcal proteases that cleave chemokines, combination vaccine targets, as well as bacterial dissemination in the lymphatic system.  It has also led to identification of new sublineages of serotypes M89 and M1 S. pyogenes (M1UK); expansion of these lineages has accounted for increasing proportions of invasive infections worldwide. Shiranee is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.