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David Lane (biologist)
British immunologist, molecular biologist and cancer researcher
For other people named David Lane, see David Lane (disambiguation).
Sir David Philip Lane (born 1 July 1952) is a British immunologist, molecular biologist and cancer researcher.
He is currently working in the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology at the Karolinska Institute and is Chairman of Chugai Pharmabody.
David Lane, who has died aged 88, was an outstanding and admired Dublin surgeon and an accomplished musician.
He is best known for the discovery of p53, one of the most important tumour suppressor genes.[3]
Education
Lane attended The John Fisher School in Purley, South London. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at University College, London where he studied auto-immunity under the supervision of Avrion Mitchison.
Career and research
Lane carried out postdoctoral research first at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) in London with Lionel Crawford and then at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York with Joseph Sambrook.
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