Laura Mackay
Microbiology and Immunology
Doherty Institute
Australia
Biography
Dr Laura Mackay is a laboratory head and senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne. She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) – Gates International Scholar, NHMRC Career Development Fellow, recipient of the Victorian Young Tall Poppy Science Award, serves on the council of the Australian Society for Immunology and holds an Adjunct Professor appointment at the Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), A*STAR. Laura obtained her PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK, in 2009, before taking up a postdoctoral position with Professor Francis Carbone (University of Melbourne). With grant support from the NHMRC and ARC, Laura established an independent group at the Peter Doherty Institute in 2015. Her laboratory studies cellular immune responses, with a focus on the genes and signals that control resident memory T cell differentiation, with a view to harness these cells to develop new treatments against infection, cancer, and autoimmune disease.
Research Interest
Immunology
