Isla Mackenzie is Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Associate Dean for Research in the School of Medicine at the University of Dundee, UK. She completed specialist training in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics and General Internal Medicine in Cambridge, UK and has a PhD in Clinical Pharmacology from the University of Cambridge. She is an Honorary Consultant Physician at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee and contributes to the cardiovascular risk clinical service. She has led several clinical trials, many including decentralised elements. She leads a work package of the IMI Trials@Home project, optimising decentralised clinical trials in Europe. She is a member of the British Heart Foundation Clinical Studies Committee. In 2018, she was awarded the Grahame-Smith Prize for Clinical Pharmacology by the British Pharmacological Society for outstanding contributions to research in clinical pharmacology.