Professor Laura Mackay is a Laboratory Head and Immunology Theme Leader at The Doherty Institute. Laura is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Bill & Melinda Gates International Scholar, a Dame Kate Campbell Fellow, a Sylvia & Charles Viertel Charitable Foundation Senior Medical Research Fellow, a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Leadership Fellow, and in 2022 was the youngest ever Fellow elected to the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. Laura obtained her PhD from The University of Birmingham, U.K. in 2009, before commencing a post-doctoral position with Professor Francis Carbone at The University of Melbourne. In 2016, she established her laboratory at The Doherty Institute.
