Wendy Havran (September 1, 1955 – January 20, 2020) was an American immunologist at the Scripps Research Institute.
[1] Havran was born in Houston, Texas, and would visit science museums and natural parks with her family.
At Scripps, havran served as associate dean of the Skaggs graduate School of Chemical and Biological Sciences.
She has made many contributions in the field in understanding the role of γδ T cell at epithelial barriers and how the immune system works.
[8] Havran has also made significant discoveries such as that discrete γδ T cell subsets come from waves of progenitors.
She also has done studies in tissue-resident dendritic epidemeral γδ T-cells that originated from the fetus and the benefits of these cells including wound healing.