Mark Dagleish

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Dr Mark Dagleish BVM&S, PhD, MRCVS, FRCPath

Mark Dagleish graduated from the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies in Edinburgh in 1990, spending over 4 years in, primarily, small animal practice, including a year at the PDSA, before returning to the ‘Dick’ to undertake a PhD characterising aspects of the proteinase: antiproteinase balance in horses with reference to lung disease. Subsequent to this, he was awarded a lectureship in animal science at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1998. In June 2002 he returned to Scotland to take up the position of veterinary pathologist at the Moredun Research Institute, in 2009 became Head of Pathology and in 2010 an advisor to the editorial board of the Journal of Comparative Pathology. In 2014 he was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists by published work and in 2017 was invited onto the Editorial Board of the Journal of Comparative Pathology. In 2020 he joined the UK Home Office Animals in Science Regulatory Unit, then in 2022 took up the position of Senior Clinician in Anatomic Pathology and Head of Anatomic Pathology at Glasgow University, and Head of Division of Pathology, Public Health and Disease Investigation in 2023. He became Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Comparative Pathology in 2025.

His principal areas of research are lung disease and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in ruminants, and the pathology of diseases of wildlife with special reference to marine mammals. Diagnostically, he spent 18 years undertaking histological examinations of neurological and abortion cases of fallen livestock in Scotland and 22 years evaluating the histopathology of sea mammals stranded on the Scottish coastline.