Helen Heslop | |
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Alma mater | University of Otago |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Immunotherapy |
Thesis | The effects of interleukin 2 on haemopoietic regeneration (1989) |
Helen Elisabeth Heslop is a physician-scientist from New Zealand whose clinical interests are in hematopoietic stem cell transplants. Heslop’s research focuses on immunotherapy to treat viral infections, post transplant and hematologic malignancies.[1] She is a professor in the Department of Medicine and Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and the director of the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital and Houston Methodist Hospital.[2] She is also the Dan L. Duncan Chair and the associate director of clinical research at the Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center.
Heslop was a co-editor of the sixth edition of Hematology: Basic Principles and Practice, which is widely considered one of the best available hematology textbooks.[3]