Dr. Kelly McNagny

Dr. Kelly McNagny obtained his BSc from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) , PhD in Immunology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and completed his Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Differentiation Program in the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany. He was appointed a member of the UBC Faculty in 1998 and is currently a Professor in the UBC Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Genetics and a Principal Investigator at the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation. Dr. McNagny has received numerous funding grants from agencies such as the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE), National Institute of Health, and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. He is a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Senior Scholar, a member of the Stem Cell Network of Canada. He is the former Co-Director of the Biomedical Research Centre, former Associate Director of the AllerGen Network Centre of Excellence, and Former Scientific Director of the Centre for Drug Research and Development.