Barbara Farnsworth Heslop CBE FRSNZ (née Cupit, 26 January 1925 – 20 December 2013) was a New Zealand immunologist specialising in transplantation immunology and immunogenetics.
Born in Auckland, Heslop was educated at Epsom Girls' Grammar School from 1938 to 1941[1][2] and then attended the University of Otago, graduating MB ChB in 1949[3] and MD in 1954.
Heslop gained recognition in the medical community for both her research and her teaching, at a time when women scientists were scarce.
[7] In 1990, in honour of her research achievements she was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand[8] mainly based on her publications on allogeneic lymphocyte cytotoxicity (a natural killer cell mediated phenomenon).
The same year, she and her husband John Heslop were joint recipients of the Sir Louis Barnett Medal awarded by the RACS.