Journal of Vaccines & Vaccination

Helen McShane

Biography

Prof. Helen McShane is a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Research Fellow and Professor of Vaccinology at the University of Oxford. She is also a consultant HIV physician. Since 2001, she has led a research group focussed on mycobacterial immunity and the development of new vaccines for tuberculosis. Her research programme involves design of candidate vaccines against TB, testing in various preclinical models, and extensive clinical testing through first-in-man clinical trials to field efficacy trials. MVA85A, one of the vaccines she developed, was the first subunit vaccine to undergo field efficacy testing since BCG.