Doreen Cantrell
British immunologist
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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.
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Cantrell made her first major contribution to the field in 1984, when she and Dr. Kendall A. Smith published the first single cell analysis of lymphocyte proliferation.
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.