Professor Deborah Mackay is Professor of Medical Epigenetics within Medicine at the University of Southampton. She is the laboratory lead of the Wessex Imprinting Group, a translational research group investigating the molecular basis and clinical impact of human imprinting disorders. The group works at the interface of clinical care, diagnosis and research and has unique potential to translate novel research findings into clinical benefit.

Deborah Mackay leads the Wessex Imprinting Group in a broad programme of research on human imprinting disorders, which are congenital disorders affecting the regulation of genes rather than their DNA sequence. Her group is delineating the genetic causes, epigenetic features and clinical consequences of imprinting disorders, with two aims: to understand the biology of imprinting, and to improve the lives of patients affected by these disorders.