Michael Dexter

(Thomas) Michael Dexter
Born (1945-05-15) 15 May 1945
Fields Haematology
Institutions Wellcome Trust
University of Manchester
Paterson Institute for Cancer Research
Alma mater University of Salford (undergraduate)
University of Manchester (postgraduate)[1]
Thesis Leukaemogenesis by the alkylating agent methylnitrosourea (1974)
Known for Director of Wellcome Trust
Cancer research
Notable awards Fellow of the Royal Society (1991)[1]

Thomas Michael Dexter FRS (born 15 May 1945)[1] is a British haematologist. Dexter was director of the Wellcome Trust, from 1998 to 2003.[2][3][4]

Education

Dexter was inspired to take A levels at night school[5] and went on study physiology and zoology at the University of Salford. After graduating, he continued in academia and received a PhD from the University of Manchester in 1974 for research into Leukemia.<ref name=dexterphd"">Dexter, Michael (1974). Leukaemogenesis by the alkylating agent methylnitrosourea (PhD thesis). University of Manchester. </ref> Dexter also received a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Salford in 1982.[1]

Career

Dexter was visiting fellow at the Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center and a professor of haematology at the University of Manchester from 1985 to 1998.[6]

He was director of the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research[7] and the Wellcome Trust.[8] He has authored over author of 360 articles in scientific journals like Nature[9][10][11] and is an editor of four books.[1][12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "DEXTER, Dr (Thomas) Michael". Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
  2. ↑ Mertl, M. (2002). "Michael Dexter to Step Down at Wellcome Trust". Science 296 (5567): 453a–. doi:10.1126/science.296.5567.453a. PMID 11964454.
  3. ↑ Williams, N. (1998). "Michael Dexter takes over Wellcome Trust's pot of gold". Science 280 (5372): 2043–2044. doi:10.1126/science.280.5372.2043a. PMID 9669957.
  4. ↑ http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2002/WTD002914.htm
  5. ↑ http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=168518
  6. ↑ http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/d/12328/(Thomas)%20Michael+DEXTER.aspx
  7. ↑ http://www.paterson.man.ac.uk/about/history.stm
  8. ↑ http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2002/04/16-02.html
  9. ↑ Dexter, T. M.; White, H. (1990). "Growth without inflation". Nature 344 (6265): 380–381. doi:10.1038/344380a0. PMID 2320106.
  10. ↑ Whetton, A. D.; Dexter, T. M. (1983). "Effect of haematopoietic cell growth factor on intracellular ATP levels". Nature 303 (5918): 629–631. doi:10.1038/303629a0. PMID 6855907.
  11. ↑ Dexter, T. M.; Moore, M. A. (1977). "In vitro duplication and "cure" of haemopoietic defects in genetically anaemic mice". Nature 269 (5627): 412–414. doi:10.1038/269412a0. PMID 561894.
  12. ↑ Dexter, T. Michael; Testa, Nydia G.; Lord, Brian I. (1997). Hematopoietic lineages in health and disease. New York: M. Dekker. ISBN 0-8247-9512-1.
Preceded by
Bridget Ogilvie		 Director of Wellcome Trust
1998–2008 		Succeeded by
Mark Walport
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