Robin Carrell

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| birth_name = Robin Wayne Carrell

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| alma_mater = University of Otago
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| thesis_title = The unstable haemoglobins

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| thesis_year = 1967

| doctoral_advisor = Hermann Lehmann

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Robin Wayne Carrell (born 5 April 1936) is a New Zealand-born haematologist.

Born in 1936,{{cite web |url=http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/documentStore/d/y/s/dys81a99/Sdys81a99.pdf |title=Application for research grant |date=12 November 1976 |publisher=University of Cambridge |access-date=13 October 2014}} Carrell was educated at Christchurch Boys' High School from 1949 to 1953.{{cite journal |date=April 2013 |title=UK branch |url=http://www.cbhs.school.nz/userfiles/HSOBNewsletterApril2013_1.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150114065925/http://www.cbhs.school.nz/userfiles/HSOBNewsletterApril2013_1.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2015-01-14 |journal=Newsletter |publisher=Christchurch High School Old Boys' Association |page=4 |access-date=13 October 2014 }} He graduated MB ChB from the University of Otago in 1959,{{cite web |url=http://shadowsoftime.co.nz/university5.html |title=NZ university graduates 1878–1961: Ca–Cl |access-date=13 October 2014}} and BSc(Hons) in chemistry and biochemistry from the University of Canterbury and Lincoln College in 1965.{{cite web |url=http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/organisation/academy/fellowship/current-fellows/?f=17918-robin-carrell |title=Robin Carrell |publisher=Royal Society of New Zealand |access-date=13 October 2014}} He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1967 and in 1968 he was appointed head of clinical biochemistry at Christchurch Hospital,{{cite journal |date=July 2013 |title=Professor Robin Carrell 1949–1953 |url=http://www.cbhs.school.nz/userfiles/HSOBNewsletterJuly2013.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130717135443/http://www.cbhs.school.nz/userfiles/HSOBNewsletterJuly2013.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-07-17 |journal=Newsletter |publisher=Christchurch High School Old Boys' Association |pages=9–11 |access-date=15 October 2014 }} the department later becoming part of the University of Otago Christchurch School of Medicine. As a spin-off from his research he co-founded biotechnology company Canterbury Scientific in 1985.{{cite news | url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/business/4678718/Big-demand-for-biotech-company | title=Big demand for biotech company | date=19 February 2011 | work=The Press | access-date=15 October 2014 | first=Tamlyn | last=Stewart }} He returned to Cambridge the following year as professor of haematology, retiring in 2003, but as professor emeritus he has continued his research at Cambridge. He retired from the board of directors of Canterbury Scientific in 2012.{{cite web |url=http://www.canterburyscientific.com/2012/04/a-legend-retires/ |title=A legend retires: Robin Carrell reflects on 44 years |date=19 April 2012 |publisher=Canterbury Scientific |access-date=15 October 2014}}

In 1986 he won the Hector Medal, at the time the highest award in New Zealand science.{{cite web |url=http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/programmes/awards/hector-medal/recipients/ |title=Hector Medal |publisher=Royal Society of New Zealand |access-date=15 October 2014}} He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1980,{{cite web |url=http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/organisation/academy/fellowship/fellows-1919-present/a-c/ |title=The Academy: A–C |publisher=Royal Society of New Zealand |access-date=15 October 2014}} a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1987,{{cite journal |year=2013 |title=The Fellowship |url=http://alumni.trin.cam.ac.uk/document.doc?id=169 |journal=Trinity Annual Record |publisher=Trinity College |page=135 |access-date=15 October 2014}} and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002.{{cite web |url=https://royalsociety.org/~/media/Royal_Society_Content/about-us/fellowship/Fellows1660-2007.pdf |title=List of Fellows of the Royal Society 1660–2007 |date=July 2007 |publisher=Royal Society |access-date=15 October 2014}}