- T. J. Hamblin
Terry J. Hamblin (born 1943) has been Professor of
Immunohaematology at theUniversity of Southampton ,United Kingdom since 1987. Born inWorcester, England , he was educated at theUniversity of Bristol .He was appointed as Consultant Haematologist in Bournemouth in 1974. He pursued a research career in
haematology andimmunology , successively becoming an expert in plasma exchange,stem cell transplantation, monoclonal antibody therapy, myelodysplastic syndrome and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. He was awardedGuernsey Fellowship for stem cell transplantation in 1986 and the Binet-Rai medal for outstanding research in CLL in 2003.He was a prolific author of books, chapters, original peer-reviewed articles, reviews, editorials, and web articles on scientific and medical topics. He was editor of the scientific journal "Leukemia Research" (1986-) and a columnist for the comic/medical political magazine "World Medicine" (1976-84).
His most important research discovery was that chronic lymphocytic
leukaemia comes in two forms, depending on whether theimmunoglobulin heavy chainvariable region genes containsomatic mutation s. If they do the survival of the patient averages 25 years; if they do not, the survival of the patient averages 8 years.He publicized the fact that, contrary to popular belief,
spinach contains no moreiron thanlettuce , while pink succulentlobster contains none at all; like allinvertebrate s itsrespiratory pigment is based oncopper rather than iron.
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