Doreen Cantrell | |
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| Fields | immunology |
| Institutions | University of Dundee |
| Thesis | Membrane markers on rat cytotoxic cells (1982) |
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Doreen Ann Cantrell (born 1957)[1] is a British scientist and Professor of Cellular Immunology at theSchool of Life Sciences,University of Dundee. She researches the development and activationT lymphocytes, which are key to the understanding the immune response.[2][3]
Cantrell received her bachelor's degree in zoology in 1979 from theUniversity College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and her PhD in Immunology in the Cancer Research Campaign Laboratory at theUniversity of Nottingham.[citation needed]
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Cantrell made her first major contribution to the field in 1984, when she and Dr. Kendall A. Smith[4] published the first single cell analysis of lymphocyte proliferation.[5]
From 1987 to 2002, she was Head of the Lymphocyte Activation Laboratory at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute. In 2002, she was awarded a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship at the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee. She has served as Chair of the UKMedical Research Council's Immunology and Infections panel (2010–14) and was a member of MRC council (2014–18). She is a member of the editorial board forImmunity.
She is a world expert on the function ofT lymphocytes: the white blood cells which control the immune system and are consequently very important in understanding the progress of diseases and disease resistance.
Cantrell was appointedCommander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to life sciences.[6] She was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 2011 for her work onimmunology. She became a member ofThe Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2005.[7]
TheUniversity of Bath awarded Cantrell anHonorary Doctorate of Science in July 2017.[8]
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