Pamela McLean

Dr. McLean is a Professor of Neuroscience at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville. She received her Bachelor of Science in biochemistry from the University of Glasgow in Scotland, and her Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Boston University School of Medicine. She obtained post-doctoral training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She has been at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville since 2012. Dr. McLean’s research interests revolve around understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and related neurodegenerative disorders. In particular, her research group studies the role of alpha-synuclein, a protein that misfolds and aggregates in brain regions that are critically involved in these diseases.