Dr Megan MacLeod graduated from the University of Glasgow with a BSc in Immunology in 2001 and the University of Edinburgh with a PhD in immunology in 2005. Her PhD, completed in Prof David Gray’s lab, focussed on the requirement for costimulation in the generation and re-activation of memory CD4 T cells.
Dr MacLeod continued to work on memory CD4 T cells during her postdoc with Pippa Marrack and John Kappler at National Jewish Health in Denver, CO, USA.
She then joined the University of Glasgow in 2012 with a Career Development Research Fellowship from Arthritis Research UK to study the induction of tolerance in memory CD4 T cells.
Dr MacLeod, who became a lecturer in 2017 and a senior lecturer in 2019, and her lab continue to examine the fundamental differences between naïve and memory T cells and to investigate the interactions between immune cells and local stromal cells following viral infection.
An active member of the British Society for Immunology, she also serves as the Scottish representative on the BSI’s Forum - the think tank for the organisation - as well as the secretary of the West of Scotland Immunology Group (WSIG).
