Seminar Series: Kay Macleod
Kay Macleod, professor in the Ben May Dept for Cancer Research department at the University of Chicago, will be a speaker for the Purdue Institute for Cancer Research 2025-26 Seminar Series.
This event is hosted by Brittany Allen-Petersen.
Macleod is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (B.Sc. Hons) and obtained her PhD from the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Following post-doctoral fellowships at the Pasteur Institute, France and at the MIT Center for Cancer Research, Cambridge, MA, Macleod set up her own research laboratory at the University of Chicago in 2002. Macleod is the Associate Director of Basic Sciences (since 2024) at the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center and was awarded the Hospira Foundation Professorship in Oncology (in 2024) in recognition of her “outstanding scientific and academic accomplishments“.