£110,000 enhancement for Dr Annette MacLeod

Published: 7 September 2015

Dr Annette MacLeod has just been awarded £110,000 by the Wellcome Trust as an enhancement to her Senior Research Fellowship in basic Biomedical Science.

Dr Annette MacleodWellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology Principal Investigator and Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine member Dr Annette MacLeod has just been awarded £110,000 by the Wellcome Trust as an enhancement to her Senior Research Fellowship in basic Biomedical Science.

The enhancement will be used to further explore a discovery which Dr MacLeod has found in the course of her current research.

Dr MacLeod said "I am very grateful to the Wellcome Trust for this enhancement to my existing award. This enhancement will allow me to investigate an interesting phenomenon that we have uncovered which may have implications for how the parasite is transmitted and spreads disease”.


First published: 7 September 2015