Name Margaret Stanley | Role Professor | |
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Margaret Anne Stanley, BSc PhD OBE FMedSci is a British virologist and epithelial biologist. As of 2009, she is Professor of Epithelial Biology at the Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Christ's College.
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Career and research
Stanley leads a research group focusing on the prevention and treatment of human papillomavirus infection, which causes cervical cancer.
She has served on the Council of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and has been a member of two of their major committees for the past ten years.
She has been a fellow of Christ's College since 1991.
She is proponent of HPV vaccination pre-puberty, as when administered when the child is 13 years old, by the time the child is in their 20s it has been able to generate a high enough concentrations of antibodies to fight the virus. Stanley also urges that both sexes be vaccinated because both are susceptible to HPV-related illnesses.
Awards and honours
Stanley was awarded an OBE in 2004 for services to virology. She was elected a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2005 and given a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010 by the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology.