Dr. Georgina Hold

Biography

Professor Georgina Hold is a leading researcher in gut microbiology at the St George Sutherland Clinical School at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry/Toxicology from the University of Surrey and a PhD from the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on understanding the impact of gastrointestinal microbes on human health and disease, with particular interest in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Professor Hold's lab is internationally recognized for its expertise in microbiome analysis, where she has developed robust protocols for the collection and processing of clinically relevant samples. She is known for addressing multi-faceted research questions that require collaboration among clinicians, microbiologists, nutritionists, epidemiologists, and bioinformaticians. Her work emphasizes the interactions between host and microbial communities and aims to identify factors that can be manipulated to promote or maintain health. She has supervised 6 PhD students and has a history of fulfilling prominent academic roles including being a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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