Department staff
Dr Eirini Theodosiou MEng MSc PhDBackground
Eirini obtained her Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). On leaving NTUA she worked for a short period as a Research Assistant at the National Agricultural Research Foundation in Athens, before embarking on her second degree, a one-year MSc in Biochemical Engineering at University College London (UCL). Following a two-year Research Assistantship with Prof. Peter Dunnill at UCL, she won a Marie Curie Research training Grant and moved to the Center for Process Biotechnology (CPB) at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), where she obtained her PhD degree. In 2002 she joined the pharmaceutical company ALPHARMA as a senior R&D scientist and Purification team leader. Eirini went to the University of Birmingham (UK) in June 2006 to take up the position of Senior Research Fellow at the School of Chemical Engineering and in March 2010 she was appointed Lecturer in Biochemical Engineering at Loughborough University.
Professional Affiliations
- Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece
- Member of the EFB Working Group on Downstream Processing
- Member of the IChemE Biochemical Engineering Subject Group (BESG)
Research interests and activities
- Manufacturing technology for New Bioproducts – especially: (i) nanoplexes (plasmid DNA, viruses, VLPs) for gene therapy and genetic vaccination; and (ii) mammalian cells (human embryonic stem cells, rare cell types from human blood products etc.) for cell therapies and regenerative medicine.
- Innovation in Process Chromatography – specifically targeting: (i) ‘Stratified Medicines’; (ii) Process scale-up; and (iii) ‘Next generation’ chromatography materials.
- Bioprocess synthesis and integration for modern and future biotherapeutic agents – especially at the fermentation/recovery interface.
Links
European Federation of Biotechnology - Working Group on Downstream Processing
Doctoral Training Centre Regenerative Medicine.