Margaret Hosie graduated as a veterinarian in 1987 from the University of Edinburgh with an intercalated honours degree in Physiological Sciences (Biochemistry and Physiology).
Following the completion of her PhD studies in 1991, her research has focused on the fields of lentiviral pathogenesis and vaccination and she has instigated and maintains collaborative links with several research laboratories in Europe, the USA and Japan.
At present she is an independently funded senior research fellow in the Retrovirus Research Laboratory at the University of Glasgow’s Institute for Comparative Medicine. She leads research projects investigating the pathogenesis of FIV infection in the domestic cat as a model immunodeficiency-causing lentivirus and the use of this model in the development and evaluation of effective vaccine strategies.
In 2002 she was awarded Recognised Specialist status in Pathology (Microbiology) by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in recognition of her contributions to the fields of lentiviral pathogenesis and vaccination.