Terry Hamblin
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Science |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Location | Bournemouth, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Born in Worcester, England 1943; school at Farnborough, Hampshire 1954-62; University 1962-7 and junior doctor posts 1967-74 in Bristol; Consultant Haematologist Bournemouth 1974-2003; Professor of Immunohaematology Southampton 1986 to present. Honorary Consultant Haematologist Kings College Hospital, London, 2004-present. After 5 years of working part time researching, writing, reviewing, editing, speaking, sitting on committees, advising, answering questions and thinking, I now think of myself as fully retired apart from my role as Editor in Chief of the medical journal Leukemia Research. I was awarded the Binet-Rai medal for outstanding research in CLL in 2002 and this has been my most sucessful area of research, but I have also made important contributions in the fields of apheresis, stem cell transplantation, myeloma, myelodysplastic syndrome, antibody therapy, cytokine therapy and DNA vaccines. I was once mascot for Aldershot Town Football. Club. Married to Diane for 44 years. Four children, Karen, Richard, Angela and David. |
| Interests | Almost everything apart from chick lit and ice hockey. |
| Favorite movies | North by North West, LA Confidential, The Usual Suspects, Casablanca, The Big Sleep, the Lord of the Rings trilogy. |
| Favorite music | Magic Flute, Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, Elgar's Cello Concerto, Raining in my Heart by Buddy Holly, Norwegian Wood by the Beatles, Hard Rain by Bob Dylan, Stuart Townend, Russian Orthodox Chants. |
| Favorite books | Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett, anything by Raymond Chandler, Fowler's Modern English Usage (revised by Sir Ernest Gowers, John Le Carre, Len Deighton, Bernard Cornwell. |