Professor Dame Angela McLean

Professor Dame Angela McLean

FRS
Life Sciences
Distinguished Fellow since 2024

I am the UK Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser. That means I am responsible for making sure that excellent science advice sits at the heart of government decision making.

Research Areas
Science Advice for Government Policy Making.

Selected Publications

Fryer, H.R., Wolinsky, S.M. and McLean, A.R., 2018. Increased T cell trafficking as adjunct therapy for HIV-1.

PLoS computational biology, 14(3), p.e1006028

Rook, G., Bäckhed, F., Levin, B.R., McFall-Ngai, M.J. and McLean, A.R., 2017. Evolution, human-microbe interactions, and life history plasticity.

The Lancet, 390(10093), pp.521-530.

McLean, A.R., Adlen, E.K., Cardis, E., Elliott, A., Goodhead, D.T., Harms-Ringdahl, M., Hendry, J.H., Hoskin, P., Jeggo, P.A., Mackay, D.J. and Muirhead, C.R., 2017. A restatement of the natural science evidence base concerning the health effects of low-level ionizing radiation

Proc. R. Soc. B, 284(1862), p.20171070.

Lorenzo-Redondo, R., Fryer, H.R., Bedford, T., Kim, E.Y., Archer, J., Pond, S.L.K., Chung, Y.S., Penugonda, S., Chipman, J.G., Fletcher, C.V. and Schacker, T.W., 2016. Persistent HIV-1 replication maintains the tissue reservoir during therapy.

Nature, 530(7588), p.51.

San Millan, A., Peña-Miller, R., Toll-Riera, M., Halbert, Z.V., McLean, A.R., Cooper, B.S. and MacLean, R.C., 2014. Positive selection and compensatory adaptation interact to stabilize non-transmissible plasmids.

Nature communications, 5, p.5208