Doreen Cantrell
Doreen Cantrell | |
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| Fields | immunology |
| Institutions | University of Dundee |
| Thesis | Membrane markers on rat cytotoxic cells (1982) |
| Website | www |
Doreen Cantrell CBE, FRS, FRSE, FMedSci, is a scientist and Professor of Cellular Immunology at the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee. She researches the development and activation T lymphocytes, which are key to the understanding the immune response.[1][2]
Education
Cantrell received her bachelor's degree in Zoology in 1979 from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and her PhD in Immunology in the Cancer Research Campaign Laboratory at the University of Nottingham.
Career
She made her first major contribution to the field in 1984, when she and Dr K A Smith published the first single cell analysis of lymphocyte proliferation.[3]
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 UK Medical Research Council's Immunology and Infections panel ( 2010-2014) and was a member of MRC council (2014-2018). She is a member of the Editorial Board for Immunity.
She is a world expert on the function of T lymphocytes: the white blood cells which control the immune system and are consequently very important in understanding the progress of diseases and disease resistance.
Awards and honours
Cantrell was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to life sciences.[4] She was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 2011 for her work on immunology. She became a member of The Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2005.[5]
References
- ^ Cold Springs Harbour Laboratory Symposium in 2013 Cantrell discussing her work on immunity and tolerance
- ^ Professor Doreen Cantrell at University of Dundee
- ^ Cantrell, D.; Smith, K. (1984). "The interleukin-2 T-cell system: a new cell growth model". Science. 224 (4655): 1312–1316. Bibcode:1984Sci...224.1312C. doi:10.1126/science.6427923. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 6427923.
- ^ "No. 60728". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2013. p. 8.
- ^ "Professor Doreen Ann Cantrell CBE, FRS, FRSE, FMedSci - The Royal Society of Edinburgh". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
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- British women scientists
- British immunologists
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- Female Fellows of the Royal Society
- Academics of the University of Dundee
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellows
- Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom)
- Alumni of Aberystwyth University
- Alumni of the University of Nottingham
- Living people