Nancy Lane Perham OBE FSB FRSA FRMS (born 1936) is a Canadian cell biologist and artist ,and is a full professor at the University of Cambridge, specialising in cell-to-cell interactions.
[2] Professor Dixie Pelluet, a lecturer in invertebrate zoology and genetics, was an important and supportive role model for Lane.
After she graduated, Lane Perham was awarded the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire scholarship, and won the Governor General's Gold Medal, which allowed her to undertake her doctoral study at Oxford University.
[1] Lane Perham completed her PhD titled A cytological study of secretory processes in gastropods, with special reference to the problem of neurosecretion at Oxford in 1963.
[1][7] Lane Perham co-founded the Athena Project, and was founder of WiSETI, a Cambridge initiative to advance women in science, technology and engineering.