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Doreen Cantrell FRS FRSE FMedSci Dr Cantrell is Professor of Cellular Immunology at the University of Dundee. She was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 2011 for her work on immunology. She researches the development and activation  T lymphocytes which are key to the understanding the immune response.

Professor Cantrell received her Bachelor degree in Zoology in 1979 from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, her PhD in Immunology in the Cancer Research Campaign Laboratory at the University of Nottingham. She made her first major contribution to the field in 1984 when she and  Dr K A Smith published the first single cell analysis of lymphocyte proliferation .. Betweeen 1987 to 2002 she was Head of the Lymphocyte Activation Laboratory at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute. 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.

Prof Cantrell can be heard discussing her work on immunity and tolerance in Cold Springs Harbour Laboratory Symposium in 2013