Mary Collins (immunologist)

Mary Collins
Born
Mary Katharine Levinge Collins
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
Known forDevelopment of lentivirus viral vectors
Spouse
(m. 1995)
[1]
ChildrenTwo daughters,[1] born c. 1994 and 1998
AwardsFMedSci
Scientific career
FieldsImmunology
Institutions
ThesisThe mechanism of action of mitogens for cultured murine fibroblasts : regulation of mitogenic receptors and response (1983)
Academic advisorsEnrique Rozengurt, Richard C. Mulligan
Websiteiris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=MKLCO33

Mary Katharine Levinge Collins, Lady Hunt is a British Professor of virology and the director of the Queen Mary University of London Blizard Institute. She served as Provost at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan. Formerly, Collins taught in the Division of Infection and Immunity at University College London, and was the head of the Division of Advanced Therapies at the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, and the Director of the Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Molecular Virology. Her research group studies the use of viruses as vectors for introducing new genes into cells, which can be useful for experimental cell biology, for clinical applications such as gene therapy, and as cancer vaccines.[2][3][4][5][6]

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  2. ^ "Prof Mary Collins". University College London. Archived from the original on 15 June 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  3. ^ "Professor Mary Collins". National Institute for Biological Standards and Control. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  4. ^ "People, Medical Molecular Virology". University College London. Archived from the original on 13 June 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  5. ^ "Mary Collins website @UCL". ucl.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2015-06-15.
  6. ^ "Mary Collins appointed as Director of Queen Mary's Blizard Institute". EurekAlert!.