Doreen Cantrell

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Doreen Cantrell
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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 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. [2] [3]

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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.[ citation needed ]

Career

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 UK Medical 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 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. [6] 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. [7]

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References

  1. Biodata, find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Accessed 4 July 2023.
  2. Cold Springs Harbour Laboratory Symposium in 2013 -- Cantrell discussing her work on immunity and tolerance, youtube.com. Accessed 4 July 2023.
  3. Professor Doreen Cantrell profile, University of Dundee website. Accessed 4 July 2023.
  4. Dr. Kendall A. Smith profile, kendallasmith.com. Accessed 4 July 2023.
  5. 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.
  6. "No. 60728". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2013. p. 8.
  7. "Professor Doreen Cantrell CBE, FRS, FRSE, FMedSci". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 18 December 2017.