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Alastair Currie

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CURRIE, Prof. Sir Alastair (Robert)', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012
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In 1949 he married Jeanne Clark, whom he had met as a fellow medical student in 1942. They had three sons and two daughters. They were predeceased by one of their children.
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as Head of Pathology, beginning a lifelong connection with cancer research. In 1962 he was offered the Regius Professor chair in Pathology at
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of the western Scottish coast on 8 October 1921. He was the son of John Currie and Maggie Mactaggart. He attended
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LLD (8 October 1921 – 12 January 1994) was a Scottish pathologist, who was Professor of Pathology, at
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Universities each awarded him an honorary doctorate: LLD from Glasgow and DSc from Aberdeen.
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and Richard H A Swain. He served as their Vice-President 1988–90 and President 1991–93
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Vice President of the Cancer Research Campaign Scientific Committee 1988–90
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High School for his final school years, from whence he studied Medicine at
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Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
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graduating MB ChB in 1944. He then studied as a postgraduate at
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This Scottish biographical article related to medicine is a
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High School. He was then sent to the mainland to attend
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Advisor to Canada's Scientific Advisory Council 1982–88
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Imperial Cancer Research Fund
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John Kerr
Andrew Wyllie
apoptosis
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Harveian Society of Edinburgh
Royal Society of Edinburgh
James Norman Davidson
Thomas Symington
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