Eleni Adamou

Eleni Adamou joined ViVI when she was a fifth-year medical student at Charité Medical University in Berlin, Germany. Her doctoral thesis topic was to investigate nasopharyngeal samples of children with respiratory viral infections in particular human rhinovirus, metapneumovirus and adenovirus. Her aim as to discover how these pathogens could be linked to specific clinical symptoms in children with influenza-like illness. Eleni's laboratory work took place at the National Reference Center for Influenza at the Robert Koch Institute, where she learned unto perform virus extraction, preparation of cDNA and RT-PCR. 
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Young ViVI member, 2011-2014.

​Eleni's publications can be found here.