Georgina Hold

Professor Georgina Hold is a leading expert in gut microbiology at the St George and Sutherland Clinical School of UNSW Australia. Her research focuses on understanding how gastrointestinal microbes influence human health and disease, particularly Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and Gastrointestinal Malignancy.

• BSc (Hons), PhD in Molecular Microbial Ecology
• Fulbright Scholar at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2014-2015)
• Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (2017)

Her work emphasizes clinically driven microbiome analysis, developing robust protocols for sample collection/processing. She collaborates globally with clinicians, microbiologists, and bioinformaticians to address challenges like microbiota metabolic capabilities and therapeutic regimen impacts. Key grants include:

• $75,000 from Crohns and Colitis Australia (2019-2022)
• $50,000 from GESA (2018-2019)

She supervises 6 PhD students in microbiome and IBD research and serves as an Honorary Academic at Aberdeen University and University College London.