Eleanor Makin

Eleanor Makin is a first-year PhD student at the University of Exeter, based in the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology. Her research asks how the immune system in the lungs responds to fungal and bacterial exposure in chronic inflammatory lung disease, with a focus on fibrotic hypersensitivity pneumonitis (FHP) and bronchiectasis.

Eleanor’s PhD is funded by the BBSRC through the Wessex One Health Doctoral Landscape Award. She studied Biomedical Sciences at De Montfort University in Leicester, completing a placement year within a research and development group aimed at commercialising novel haemostatic technology.