Doreen Ann Cantrell (born 1957)[1] 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.
[citation needed] Cantrell made her first major contribution to the field in 1984, when she and Dr. Kendall A. Smith[4] published the first single cell analysis of lymphocyte proliferation.
In 2002, she was awarded a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship at the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee.
Cantrell was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to life sciences.