Laura Mackay is Professor and Immunology Theme lead at The Peter Doherty Institute. She is a HHMI International Research Scholar, Dame Kate Campbell Fellow, Sylvia & Charles Viertel Senior Medical Research Fellow and NHMRC Leadership Investigator. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and recipient of Awards including The Prime Minister’s Prize for The Frank Fenner Life Scientist of the Year, Jian Zhou Medal, Gottschalk Medal, AAMRI Rising Star and the Immediate Past President of The Federation of Immunological Societies of Asia-Oceania (FIMSA). Dr Mackay is at the forefront of research on immunological memory and her work was instrumental in the discovery that tissue-resident memory T cells are critical for infection and cancer control. The focus of her Laboratory is on the T cell-intrinsic and microenvironmental cues that govern tissue immunity, with a view to harness tissue resident lymphocytes for new immunotherapeutic strategies against disease.
