Speaker
Rachel McKendry
Affiliation: i-sense, the EPSRC IRC in Early Warning Sensing Systems for Infectious Diseases

Rachel McKendry is Director of the new £11M EPSRC IRC in Early Warning Sensing Systems for Infectious Diseases (i-sense) and Director of Biomedicine and Life Sciences at the London Centre for Nanotechnology. Her research lies at the cutting edge of infectious diseases, nanotechnology, telecommunications and big data. Recent research highlights span from unravelling the molecular workings of antibiotics against MRSA (Nature Nanotechnology 2008, 2013 and 2014), to creating mobile phone-connected tests for HIV (NIHR i4i programme), and developing early warning sensing system for infectious diseases, by linking self-reported symptoms on social media and search engines with mobile phone connected disease diagnostic tests.