Professor Mandy MacLean wins AstraZeneca Prize

Published: 2 August 2013

Professor Mandy MacLean MBE, Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, has won the AstraZeneca Prize for Women in Pharmacology. The prize is awarded annually to a woman who had made an outstanding research contribution to pharmacology.

Professor Mandy MacLean MBE, has won the AstraZeneca Prize for Women in Pharmacology. The prize is awarded annually, by the British Pharmacological Soociety, to a woman who had made an outstanding research contribution to pharmacology.  The winner is customarily invited to give a keynote lecture at the British Pharmacological Society Winter Meeting. Mandy MacLean

Mandy is Professor of Pulmonary Pharmacology (Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences). She directs a research group studying the pharmacology of pulmonary hypertension. The group has a particular interest in the role of serotonin in the pathobiology of pulmonary hypertension.

In 2010 she was awarded the MBE for services to science and in June this year she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.


First published: 2 August 2013

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