Professor Miren Iturriza-Gómara

Professor Miren Iturriza-Gómara was appointed to the ACMSF in 2015. She is Professor of Virology at the University of Liverpool. Her research interests include enteric virus infections and vaccines.

Previously she was Head of the Enteric Virus Unit, at the Health Protection Agency. In 2009 she was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists in recognition of her published work on the burden of disease associated with enteric pathogens and studies on molecular epidemiology, diversity and evolution of enteric viruses. She was elected adjunct faculty of the Christian Medical School, Vellore, India in 2009, and is an honorary Consultant Clinical Scientist with Public Health England.

She has published widely on gastrointestinal infections (in excess of 100 original papers in peer reviewed scientific journals) and has been invited as keynote speaker on rotavirus and norovirus infections to numerous national and international scientific meetings. She currently leads the rotavirus strain surveillance network EuroRotaNet, is a member of the Laboratory Technical Working Group for the WHO Rotavirus Surveillance Network and of the Rotavirus Classification Working Group. In 2013 she was elected to the Virology Division of the SGM Scientific Conferences.