Meet the 2024 Winner - Mandy (Margaret) MacLean, PhD
Mandy (Margaret) MacLean, PhD is a Professor of Pulmonary Pharmacology at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Scotland. She received a first-class degree in Pharmacology in 1980, and later, a PhD at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. She worked in a pharmaceutical company as a cardiovascular pharmacologist and carried out postdoctoral positions at The University of Florida, the University of Cambridge, and The University of Glasgow. She received her Personal Professorship at The University of Glasgow in 2000. Awards include a Royal Society (UK) Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2010, an MBE from Queen Elizabeth for Services to Science in 2010, a British Pharmacological Society AstraZeneca Prize for Women in Pharmacology in 2013, a Royal Society (UK) Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship in 2013 and she was the recipient of the Reynold Spector Award in Clinical Pharmacology given by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) in 2017. Mandy became Vice-President of The British Pharmacological Society in 2006 (to 2008), Vice-President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2018 (until 2021) and a Council member of the Academy of Medical Sciences (London) from 2020 to 2023. Mandy has mentored circa 25 PhD students during her career, many of which still contribute to research into the pulmonary circulation.
Mandy has been a member of the ATS PC Assembly for over 25 years and contributed to the ATS as a Chair/organiser of symposia at ATS conferences and the Grover conference. She sat on the PC Assembly Committee from 2006-2008, the Nominating committee from 2013-2014 and more recently the Project committee and currently still sits on the PC assembly project committee.
Her research has focused on the pharmacology of the pulmonary circulation and how this changes in PAH with a view to identifying therapeutic targets. She has published over 100 papers on the pharmacology of endothein-1, PDEs, serotonin and estrogens in the pulmonary circulation and how these are altered in PAH. More recently she has studied sex differences in PAH and, in the UK, led a working group that led to the first new policy at UKRI-MRC that makes it mandatory to include both sexes in MRC-funded research. She has contributed to many funding committees continuously since 2005 including the UKs BBSRC, MRC and BHF.
Description
The Pulmonary Circulation Leadership Award is given annually in the Appreciation of Decades of Leadership and Devoted Service to the Pulmonary Circulation Research Community.
Past Recipients of the Assembly on Pulmonary Circulation Leadership Award
2023 - Troy Stevens, PhD 2022 - Paul Hassoun, MD
2021 - Nicholas S. Hill, MD 2020 - Karen A. Fagen, MD 2019 - Jason X. J Yuan, MD, PhD 2018 - Ghazwan Butrous, MD, PhD 2017 - Jeremy P. T. Ward, PhD 2016 - Timothy M. Moore, MD, PhD 2015 - Skip Garcia, MD 2014 - Jimmie T. Sylvester, MD 2013 - Mary I. Townsley, PhD 2012 - Ivan F. McMurtry, MD 2011 - Sharon I. S. Rounds, MD 2010 - Charles A. Hales, MD 2009 - Everett Sinnett, PhD 2008 - Claude Lenfant, MD 2007 - Rino Aldrighetti, the President of the PHA 2006 - Wiltz W Wagner, Jr. PhD 2005 - Dorothy B Gail, PhD 2004 - John H Newman, MD 2003 - Suzanne S Hurd, PhD 2002 - Edward R Block, MD 2001 - E Kenneth Weir, MD 2000 - Carol E. Vriem, PhD
