Doreen Cantrell
{{short description|British immunologist}}
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{{Use British English|date=February 2018}}
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| honorific_prefix = Professor
|honorific_suffix= {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE|FRS|FRSE|FMedSci}}
|field=immunology
|workplaces=University of Dundee
|alma_mater={{hlist|University College of Wales, Aberystwyth|University of Nottingham}}
| thesis_title = Membrane markers on rat cytotoxic cells
| thesis_url = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.253198
| thesis_year = 1982
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| website = [http://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/people/doreen-cantrell Profile]
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Doreen Ann Cantrell (born 1957)[https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/7OsUzDD2PVdxl103L1mMjKvdfYE/appointments Biodata], find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Accessed 4 July 2023. 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.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCHzZeho_Kg Cold Springs Harbour Laboratory Symposium in 2013 -- Cantrell discussing her work on immunity and tolerance], youtube.com. Accessed 4 July 2023.[http://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/people/doreen-cantrell Professor Doreen Cantrell profile], University of Dundee website. Accessed 4 July 2023.
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|date=July 2023}}
Career
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Cantrell made her first major contribution to the field in 1984, when she and Dr. Kendall A. Smith[https://kendallasmith.com/writing/ Dr. Kendall A. Smith profile], kendallasmith.com. Accessed 4 July 2023. published the first single cell analysis of lymphocyte proliferation.{{cite journal|last1=Cantrell|first1=D.|last2=Smith|first2=K.|title=The interleukin-2 T-cell system: a new cell growth model|journal=Science|volume=224|issue=4655|year=1984|pages=1312–1316|issn=0036-8075|doi=10.1126/science.6427923|pmid=6427923|bibcode=1984Sci...224.1312C}}
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.{{London Gazette|issue=60728|supp=y|page=8|date=31 December 2013}} 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.{{Cite news|url=https://rse.org.uk/fellowship/professor-doreen-cantrell/|title=Professor Doreen Cantrell CBE, FRS, FRSE, FMedSci |work=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|access-date=18 December 2017|language=en-GB}}
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Category:British women scientists
Category:British immunologists
Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Female fellows of the Royal Society
Category:Academics of the University of Dundee
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Category:Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellows
Category:Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom)
Category:Alumni of Aberystwyth University