Dr Kyriaki Giorgakoudi
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Dr Kyriaki Giorgakoudi is a SHMS Senior Research Fellow and holds an honorary contract with The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the NIHR Economics in BRCs and HRCs sub-group committee.
Kyriaki has overlapping research interests in mathematical modelling, health economics, biomathematics, epidemiology, cancer and infectious diseases and has experience working in highly interdisciplinary environments.
Research Team members:
Luke O'Neill, PhD Student (Primary supervisor)
Current Research Grants:
Co-Investigator & Health Economics Lead
NIHR, Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation Programme, Precision Medicine. Title: Novel blood test to personalise Early Stage Colorectal Cancer treatment. Jan 2020 – Dec 2027, £2,953,289.
Co-Investigator
NIHR, Public Health Research, Title: The Kids Will Eat Better study: how can local authorities improve the efficiency and effectiveness of interventions to address inequality in childhood obesity?, September 2020-June 2023, £1,003,769
Co-Investigator & Health Economics Lead
NIHR, Programme Grant for Applied Research. Title: Integrating genetic testing into the prostate cancer pathway to more precisely guide care, treatment and accelerate clinical trials. Jan 2021 – Dec 2030, £3,001,779.
Co-Investigator & Health Economics Lead
NIHR, Research for Patient Benefit. Title: A feasibility study COmparing UroLift Standard Transurethral Resection of Prostate Ahead of Radiotherapy in men with urinary symptoms secondary to prostate enlargement (CO-STAR). Jan 2023 – Jan 2025, £247,786.
Co-Investigator & Health Economics Lead
NIHR Biomedical Research Centre Partnership with The Royal Marsden, Jan 2023- Dec 2027, £500,000
Health Economics Lead
Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Evaluation Of Radiographer Led Magnetic Resonance Image Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy Delivery, Mar 2023- Feb 2024, £64,191.01
Co-Investigator & Health Economics Lead
NIHR, Programme Grant for Applied Research, Reducing risk of cardiovascular disease in people with severe mental illness: development, feasibility testing and trial of a peer supported group clinic intervention (PEGASUS), Oct 2023 - Oct 2028, £2,679,253.97
Co-Investigator & Health Economics Lead
NIHR, Policy Research Programme, Culturally appropriate advocacy, improving access, experience and outcomes for racialised people in mental health services. Dec 2023- Jun 2025, £356,071.64
Qualifications
- Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PgCAP), Brunel University London
- PhD in Mathematical Modelling in Biology, Pirbright Institute & Loughborough University, United Kingdom
- MSc in Operational Research with Risk, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- BSc in Mathematics, Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Employment
- SHPS Senior Research Fellow, City, University of London, United Kingdom, September 2023 - present
- Senior Research Fellow, City, University of London, United Kingdom, October 2019 - August 2023
- Lecturer, Brunel University London, United Kingdom, September 2018 - September 2019
- Research Fellow, City, University of London, United Kingdom, September 2016 - September 2018
- Research Associate, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, April 2014 - September 2016
Publications
Publications by category
Conference papers and proceedings (2)
- Xue, E., Williams, B., Tree, A., McNair, H. and Giorgakoudi, K. 2503: Cost-consequence analysis of radiographer target volume online contouring for prostate MRIgRT. .doi:10.1016/s0167-8140(24)02694-x
- Anandappa, G., Starling, N., Peckitt, C., Bryant, A., Begum, R., Carter, P.... Cunningham, D. TRACC: Tracking mutations in cell-free DNA to predict relapse in early colorectal cancer-A randomized study of circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) guided adjuvant chemotherapy versus standard of care chemotherapy after curative surgery in patients with high risk stage II or stage III colorectal cancer (CRC). .
Journal articles (12)
- Williams, B., Xue, E.O.C., Tree, A., McNair, H. and Giorgakoudi, K. (2026). Practice development perspective of RTT contouring in online adaptive radiotherapy for prostate cancer: A single-centre cost-consequence analysis. Technical Innovations & Patient Support in Radiation Oncology, 38, pp. 100391-100391. doi:10.1016/j.tipsro.2026.100391
- O’Neill, L., Gubbins, S., Reynolds, C., Giorgakoudi, K. and Limon, G. (2025). Rift Valley fever and invisible women. Research Directions: One Health, 3. doi:10.1017/one.2025.10005
- O’Neill, L., Gubbins, S., Reynolds, C., Limon, G. and Giorgakoudi, K. (2024). The socioeconomic impacts of Rift Valley fever: A rapid review. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 18(8), pp. e0012347-e0012347. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0012347
- Giorgakoudi, K., Schley, D., Juleff, N., Gubbins, S. and Ward, J. (2023). The role of Type I interferons in the pathogenesis of foot-and-mouth disease virus in cattle: A mathematical modelling analysis. Mathematical Biosciences, 363, pp. 109052-109052. doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2023.109052
- Wong, K., Kinsella, N., Seth, J., Nicol, D., Cahill, D., Kasivisvanathan, R.... James, N.D. (2023). COmparing Urolift and Standard Transurethral resection of prostate Ahead of Radiotherapy in men with urinary symptoms secondary to prostate enlargement in Southwest London and North Cumbria (CO-STAR): a study protocol for a randomised feasibility study. BMJ open, 13(10). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076621
- Davies, H.G., O’Sullivan, C.P., Al Janabi, H., Rattue, H., Trotter, C., Giorgakoudi, K.... Heath, P.T. (2022). Comparison of Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Children With Group B Streptococcal Sepsis and Meningitis. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 75(5), pp. 922-923. doi:10.1093/cid/ciac318
- Hindocha, S., Campbell, D., Ahmed, M., Giorgakoudi, K., Sharma, B., Yousaf, N.... Lee, R.W. (2021). Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor and Radiotherapy-Related Pneumonitis: An Informatics Approach to Determine Real-World Incidence, Severity, Management, and Resource Implications. Frontiers in Medicine, 8. doi:10.3389/fmed.2021.764563
- Anandappa, G., Starling, N., Peckitt, C., Bryant, A., Begum, R., Carter, P.... Cunningham, D. (2020). TRACC: Tracking mutations in cell-free DNA to predict relapse in early colorectal cancer—A randomized study of circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) guided adjuvant chemotherapy versus standard of care chemotherapy after curative surgery in patients with high risk stage II or stage III colorectal cancer (CRC). Journal of Clinical Oncology, 38(15_suppl), pp. TPS4120-TPS4120. doi:10.1200/jco.2020.38.15_suppl.tps4120
- Ahmed, N., Giorgakoudi, K., Usuf, E., Okomo, U., Clarke, E., Kampmann, B.... Trotter, C. (2020). Potential cost-effectiveness of a maternal Group B streptococcal vaccine in The Gambia. Vaccine, 38(15), pp. 3096-3104. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.02.071
- Giorgakoudi, K., O'Sullivan, C., Heath, P.T., Ladhani, S., Lamagni, T., Ramsay, M.... Trotter, C. (2018). Cost-effectiveness analysis of maternal immunisation against group B Streptococcus (GBS) disease: A modelling study. Vaccine, 36(46), pp. 7033-7042. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.09.058
- Kohli-Lynch, M., Russell, N.J., Seale, A.C., Dangor, Z., Tann, C.J., Baker, C.J.... Lawn, J.E. (2017). Neurodevelopmental Impairment in Children After Group B Streptococcal Disease Worldwide: Systematic Review and Meta-analyses. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 65(suppl_2), pp. S190-S199. doi:10.1093/cid/cix663
- Giorgakoudi, K., Gubbins, S., Ward, J., Juleff, N., Zhang, Z. and Schley, D. (2015). Using Mathematical Modelling to Explore Hypotheses about the Role of Bovine Epithelium Structure in Foot-And-Mouth Disease Virus-Induced Cell Lysis. PLOS ONE, 10(10), pp. e0138571-e0138571. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0138571