Norman Carey

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| name = Norman Carey

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| birth_date = 8 February 1934

| birth_place = Newport, Wales

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2017|11|05|1934|02|08}}

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| workplaces = George Washington University
St Thomas' Hospital
G.D. Searle
Celltech

| alma_mater = St Catharine's College, Cambridge

| doctoral_students = Michael Houghton

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Norman Henry Carey (8 February 1934{{spaced ndash}}5 November 2017) was a British scientist who helped to establish Celltech in 1980, where he was the founding director of research and development until 1992.{{cite web |title=Dr Norman Carey |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/dr-norman-carey-obituary-kp7t09dk0 |website=The Times |access-date=18 May 2024}}{{Subscription required}}{{cite web |author1=Tim Harris |title=A British Biotech Biopedia: Early Days in the U.K. |url=https://www.genengnews.com/insights/a-british-biotech-biopedia-early-days-in-the-u-k/ |website=Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News |access-date=18 May 2024}}

Born in Newport, Wales, he attended St Julian's secondary school in Newport, before winning a scholarship at the age of 17 to read natural sciences at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He graduated from Cambridge with a BA in 1954 and with a PhD in biochemistry in 1958.The Cambridge University List of Members up to 31 July 1998

He worked at George Washington University, St Thomas' Hospital, and G.D. Searle, prior to joining Celltech in 1980. While at Searle in the 1970s he was a doctoral supervisor to Michael Houghton, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2020.{{cite web |title=Michael Houghton Biographical |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2020/houghton/biographical/ |website=Nobel Prize |access-date=18 May 2024}}