Dr. Karen Mackenzie

Professor

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Biography

Karen Mackenzie completed her medical training with first-class honors in Immunology at the University of Edinburgh and obtained a Medical Research Council funded PhD in allergic lung disease at the Centre for Inflammation Research, Edinburgh. She has spent time as a non-clinical Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Professor Andrew Jackson at the Institute of Genetics and Cancer, Edinburgh, where she investigated immune pathways associated with a type of interferonopathy called Aicardi-Goutières disease, as documented in a Nature publication in 2017. Following her specialty medical training in Clinical Genetics, she was awarded the MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship. Mackenzie also spent time at the Snoeck Lab at Columbia University, New York, learning novel lung organoid techniques with the aim to establish similar methodologies at the University of Edinburgh.

Research Interests

Experience

Honorary Consultant

2017-01-01 — Present

Clinical Genetics • Western General Hospital, Edinburgh

Providing clinical expertise in genetic conditions and leading clinical trials.

Awards

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Poster prize

2018-07-01
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Poster prize

2017-03-01
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Highly commended

2009-01-01

Requirements for University of Edinburgh

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.25
IELTS
Listening
Required:6
Reading
Required:6
Writing
Required:6
Speaking
Required:6
Overall
Required:7
TOEFL
Listening
Required:20
Reading
Required:20
Writing
Required:20
Speaking
Required:20
Total
Required:100
Prerequisites
Undergraduate degree in business, management, or related subject
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