Laura Mackay

Laura K. Mackay FAHMS is an internationally-recognised immunologist, Professor of Immunology at the University of Melbourne and a Laboratory Head at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity.

In 2022, Mackay was the youngest ever Fellow elected to the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. Mackay is listed as an esteemed scientist in the Encyclopaedia of Australian Science and Innovation. Her research on tissue-resident memory T cells has been featured by the University of Melbourne. She has been interviewed by Science on diversity in STEM and ABC Radio National Science Show on the influence of science on public good.

Awards, honours and recognition

• 2016 – Tall Poppy Award from Australian Institute of Policy and Science
• 2018 – Michelson Prize for Human Immunology and Vaccine Research
• 2019 – Gottschalk Medal
• 2019 – Eureka Prize for Outstanding Early Career Researcher
• 2019 – Frank Fenner Prize for Life Scientist of the Year
• 2022 – Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences

Selected publications

• Laura K. Mackay (27 September 2021). "Lymphocytes in lockdown". Nature Reviews Immunology. 21 (10): 617–617. doi:10.1038/S41577-021-00616-W. ISSN 1474-1733. Wikidata Q110894834.
• Susan N. Christo; Maximilien Evrard; Simone L. Park; et al. (23 August 2021). "Discrete tissue microenvironments instruct diversity in resident memory T cell function and plasticity". Nature Immunology. 22 (9): 1140–1151. doi:10.1038/S41590-021-01004-1. ISSN 1529-2908. Wikidata Q110894838.
• Simone L. Park; Laura K. Mackay (22 March 2021). "Decoding Tissue-Residency: Programming and Potential of Frontline Memory T Cells". Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 13 (10): a037960. doi:10.1101/CSHPERSPECT.A037960. ISSN 1943-0264. PMC 8485744. PMID 33753406. Wikidata Q110894844.
• Laura K. Mackay; Azad Rahimpour; Joel Z I Ma; et al. (27 October 2013). "The developmental pathway for CD103(+)CD8+ tissue-resident memory T cells of skin". Nature Immunology. 14 (12): 1294–1301. doi:10.1038/NI.2744. ISSN 1529-2908. PMID 24162776. Wikidata Q42259563.
• Laura K Mackay; Heather M Long; Jill M Brooks; Graham S Taylor; Carol S Leung; Adrienne Chen; Fred Wang; Alan B Rickinson (18 December 2009). "T cell detection of a B-cell tropic virus infection: newly-synthesised versus mature viral proteins as antigen sources for CD4 and CD8 epitope display". PLOS Pathogens. 5 (12): e1000699. doi:10.1371/JOURNAL.PPAT.1000699. ISSN 1553-7366. PMC 2788701. PMID 20019813. Wikidata Q33519520.