Nishel M. Shah graduated from Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry and is currently a Consultant Obstetrician with a special interest in prematurity, diabetes and infectious diseases. He completed his Ph.D. at Imperial College London, where his research work profiled the changes in maternal immune responses longitudinally with advancing pregnancy as well as during labor. He specifically investigated the effects of supplementary progesterone and RU486 as immune-modulators, and, using influenza vaccine use in pregnancy as a model, antigen-specific responses in pregnancy. This work underpins his current and published work. More recently, he has been exploring maternal immune responses to infection and vaccines. His research is attempting to decipher how pregnancy influences the development and longevity of immunity to SARS-CoV-2 after infection and vaccination. He is also developing a precision medicine-based point-of-care pathway to identify infective preterm labor.