Name:
Professor Margaret MacLean MBE HonFBPhS
Organisation:
University of Strathclyde
Year elected:
2018
Primary professional setting:
Mandy’s research has focused on sex effects and interactions between serotonin and oestrogen metabolism in pulmonary arterial hypertension. She won the 2017 Reynold Spector Award for Clinical Pharmacology from ASPET. Other research awards include a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2010 and a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior research Fellowship in 2013. In 2013 she was awarded the BPS AstraZeneca Prize for Women in Pharmacology. She is now Vice-President (Life Sciences) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Mandy received an MBE in the 2010 Queen’s New Years Honours for public engagement in science. She plays a key role in the University’s public engagement agenda including running monthly events for Glasgow’s Cafe Scientifique (since 2004). In 2018 she was made a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) and was appointed the Scottish Champion for the AMS.