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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.
Clinical Genetics • Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
Providing clinical expertise in genetic conditions and leading clinical trials.
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