Antzela obtained her BSc in Biomedical Sciences from Brunel University in 2018, followed by an MSc in Molecular Medicine at Imperial College London. During her MSc project, she worked under the supervision of Professor Charles Bangham in the Department of Infectious Diseases, where she studied the molecular basis of the HTLV-1 viral pathogenesis and immunology.

After finishing her postgraduate studies, she expanded her expertise working by as a Research Assistant with the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans in the Naglik Laboratory at King’s College London. As a research assistant she led two projects and contributed to several others. The first project involved the characterisation of innate immune response to about 200 secreted virulence factors from 37 medically relevant species of pathogenic fungi and the second, the screening of genes driving disease progression and pathogenesis in several fungal strains.

Antzela started her PhD in the Naglik Lab in October 2021 and focuses on understanding the molecular mechanism that drives pathogenesis of C. albicans clinical isolates.