Rate My Professor Vasso Terzidou

Vasso Terzidou is a Clinical Reader in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London. She serves as a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, heading a specialised prematurity clinic and participating in the high-risk pregnancy team. She holds qualifications including MBBS from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, MRCOG, BSCCP, and PhD in Reproductive Biology from Imperial College London. Terzidou has worked in obstetrics and gynaecology in London for over two decades, previously holding positions as Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London and clinical lecturer at Queen Charlotte's Hospital.

Her research leadership in the Section of Pregnancy, Parturition and Prematurity focuses on circulating microRNAs as biomarkers for predicting pregnancy pathologies such as preterm birth, fetal growth restriction, and ectopic pregnancy. She investigates oxytocin receptor signaling, prostaglandin signaling pathways, vaginal microbiome dysbiosis, host-microbe interactions, and inflammatory mechanisms in labour. Key publications include 'Microbial-driven preterm labour involves crosstalk between the innate and adaptive immune response' (Nature Communications, 2022), 'Relationship between vaginal microbial dysbiosis, inflammation, and pregnancy outcomes' (Science Translational Medicine, 2016), 'First Trimester Circulating MicroRNA Biomarkers Predictive of Pregnancies at Risk of Preterm Birth' (2019), 'Maternal plasma microRNAs as potential biomarkers for triaging pregnancies of unknown location and ectopic pregnancy diagnosis' (2025), and 'Constitutive internalisation of EP2 differentially regulates G protein signalling' (2024). Her scholarship garners over 2,500 citations. Awards include the HEFCE-NHS Clinical Senior Lectureship Award (2010) and Prize for oral presentation at the Blair Bell Competition Meeting, RCOG (2005). Terzidou contributes to teaching as Module 2 Clinical Lead in the Reproductive and Developmental Sciences intercalated BSc programme and advances preterm birth prevention through internationally recognised contributions.