Cait MacPhee

Cait MacPhee
Alma materUniversity of Melbourne
Known forBiological Physics
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh

Catherine Elizabeth "Cait" MacPhee CBE FRSE FInstP FRSC is a Professor of Biological Physics at the University of Edinburgh. MacPhee's research into the BslA protein from Bacillus subtilis, together with Nicola Stanley-Wall from the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, has been widely reported because of potential applications in the production of ice cream. She was appointed CBE "for services to women in physics", and was subsequently elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She was a finalist for the BBSRC Innovator of the Year competition, and was awarded the Gabor Medal of the Royal Society.

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