Dr Alison Whitelegg
Consultant Clinical Scientist
University Hospital Southampton
Email: Alison.Whitelegg@uhs.nhs.uk
Dr Alison Whitelegg
Southampton
Dr Alison Whitelegg is a Consultant Clinical Scientist in Immunology at University Hospital Southampton and Immunology Clinical Lead at Portsmouth University Hospitals NHS Trust. She has expertise in immunotyping haematological malignancy and in functional lymphocyte and neutrophil assays. Her research background is in T cell immune responses and vaccine specific immune responses as an assessment of immunocompetence in immunodeficient and transplant patients and this has been put to use in assessing these responses in Covid19. Alison's Immunology career began at the Anthony Nolan Research Institute and she has spent a further 20 years in the NHS. Education and mentoring future Clinical Scientists is one of Alison's passions and as such she has taken up the post of educational tutor for Immunology Clinical Scientists in the UK and is an active member of the Immunology Professional Committee branch of Association of Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine.