Harvey Cantor is an American immunologist known for his studies of the development and immunological function of T lymphocytes.

Cantor's early studies focused on the development and function of lymphocytes derived from the thymus (T-lymphocytes or T cells).

This approach depended on the use of antibodies to cell surface glycoproteins or “markers” that might identify specialized subsets of lymphocytes with particular immunologic functions.

from New York University School of Medicine, followed by fellowship training at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD with Richard Asofsky and as an NIH Special Fellow at the National Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill, London.

[14] More recently, Cantor received the 2019 Excellence in Mentoring Award [15] and was elected as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Association of Immunologists in 2020.