Professor Alan McNally
position
Infection and Acute Care Theme Lead
Bio
Alan McNally is Professor of Microbial Genomics at the University of Birmingham, where he is also Director of the Institute of Microbiology and Infection.
Prof McNally leads a research team using genomics to track antimicrobial resistance infections in hospital settings. During the pandemic he was the lead of the Lighthouse Laboratory Covid PCR testing lab in Milton Keynes – the first of three Government ‘mega-labs’ to be set-up across the UK, vastly increasing testing capacity and allowing tens of thousands more patient samples to be processed each day.
