About

Mackenzie Cottrell is an Associate Professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She completed an American Board of Clinical Pharmacology-accredited T32 clinical pharmacology fellowship and an American College of Clinical Pharmacy-accredited HIV pharmacology fellowship within the Kashuba Laboratory. Cottrell joined the UNC CFAR in 2015 as the Assistant Director of the CPAC Core and transitioned to Co-Director in 2019. Her research focuses on the pharmacology of antiretrovirals used for HIV prevention in mucosal tissues, on the discovery of new latency-reversing agents for HIV cure, and on developing long-acting formulations of antiretrovirals.