Angela McLean (masanin ilimin halitta)

Dame Angela Ruth McLean (an haife ta a ranar 31 ga Mayu 1961)   farfesa ce a fannin ilmin lissafi a Sashen ilmin halitta, Jami'ar Oxford, kuma Babban Mai ba da shawara na kimiyya ga Gwamnatin Burtaniya.

## Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi
An haifi McLean a ranar 31 ga Mayu 1961 a Kingston, Jamaica, 'yar Elizabeth da Andre McLean .  Ta yi karatu a Makarantar 'yan mata ta Mary Datchelor, Camberwell, London, ta ci gaba da karatu don digiri na farko a lissafi a Jami'ar Oxford inda ta kasance daliba a Kwalejin Somerville, Oxford . Jim Murray ne ya koya mata ilmin lissafi,  kuma ta kammala a shekarar 1982. A shekara ta 1987 ta sami digirinta na PhD daga Kwalejin Imperial, London tare da rubutun kan tsarin lissafi na yaduwar cutar kyanda a kasashe masu tasowa, wanda Roy M. Anderson ke kula da shi.

## Ayyuka da bincike
Binciken McLean yana cikin amfani da tsarin lissafi don taimakawa fahimtarmu game da juyin halitta da yaduwar magungunan cututtuka. Binciken ta yayi bincike kan yadda kamuwa da cuta ke girma da sauri a cikin mutane, da kuma yadda suke yaduwa da sauri tsakanin mutane.

Ta yi aiki a kan cututtukan cututtukani na mutane kamar coronavirus, Kwayar cutar rigakafin mutum (HIV)  da kyanda, da kuma cututtuken dabbobi kamar ƙafa da baki,  da kuma scrapie. 

A cikin 1990, McLean ya lashe kyautar Royal Society University Research Fellowship a Jami'ar Oxford, kuma tsakanin 1994 da 1998 an tura shi zuwa Cibiyar Pasteur a Paris.

Tsakanin 1998 da 2000 ta zama shugabar ilmin lissafi a Cibiyar Nazarin Kimiyya ta Biotechnology da Biological Sciences.

A shekara ta 2000 an nada ta a matsayin Farfesa a fannin Ilimin lissafi, Jami'ar Oxford da Fellow na Kwalejin St Catherine, Oxford . 

Bayan barkewar cutar a shekara ta 2001 ta yi aiki a matsayin memba na kwamitin a kan bita mai zaman kansa da Royal Society ta gudanar. Binciken, wanda Sir Brian Follett ya jagoranta, ya ba da shawarwari daga ra'ayi na kimiyya game da yadda za a hana da kuma yaki da ci gaba da mamaye cututtukan dabbobi masu yaduwa.

Ta ci gaba da aiki a matsayin mai ba da shawara ga gwamnatin Burtaniya, gami da shugabancin ƙungiyar ƙwararru don aikin manufofi na gaba akan rage haɗarin bala'o'i na gaba, gami leken annoba. Ta kasance memba na Ma'aikatar Muhalli, Abinci da Harkokin Karkara (DEFRA) Kwamitin Ba da Shawara na Kimiyya da Ma'aikatu na Kasa kan Sabon da Cututtuka masu tasowa.

A shekara ta 2005, McLean ya kuma zama darektan Cibiyar Kula da Cututtukan Mutane a Makarantar James Martin 21st Century, Oxford.

A shekara ta 2008 an zabe ta a matsayin babban jami'in bincike a fannin kimiyyar rayuwa a Kwalejin All Souls, Oxford .

A shekara ta 2009 an zabe ta a matsayin Fellow na Royal Society (FRS). 

Daga 2013 zuwa gaba McLean ya shiga cikin sakewa ko kira na shaidar kimiyya a kan mahimman batutuwa don manufofi. Ta rubuta rubuce-rubuce da yawa da Royal Society da Oxford Martin School suka buga. Batutuwan sun haɗa da: tasirin kiwon lafiya na radiation na ionising mai ƙarancin matakin;  neonicotinoid insecticides da masu shayar da kwari; tasirin sunadarai masu rushe endocrine akan namun daji; kula da tarin fuka. 

A cikin 2019 an nada McLean a matsayin Babban Mai ba da shawara na kimiyya ga Ma'aikatar Tsaro, mace ta farko da aka nada a matsayin mukamin.

A lokacin annobar COVID-19 a cikin 2020-2021 ta halarci tarurruka na Kungiyar Ba da Shawara ta Kimiyya don Gaggawa (SAGE) [1] kuma ta kasance mataimaki [2] ga Sir Patrick Vallance, Babban Mai ba da Shawara na Kimiyya na Gwamnati (GCSA). Tare da Farfesa Graham Medley ta jagoranci ƙungiyar ƙwayoyin cuta ta kimiyya ta SAGE a kan ƙira (SPI-M-O). [1] Ta kuma ba da gudummawa ga wasu bayanan kafofin watsa labarai na gwamnati.[3]

A cikin 2023 Sakataren Ma'aikatar ya ba da sanarwar cewa Firayim Minista ya zaɓi McLean a matsayin sabon Babban Mai ba da shawara na kimiyya na gwamnati bayan gasa, don cin nasarar Sir Patrick Vallance. McLean ita ce mace ta farko da aka nada a wannan mukamin.

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