(Thomas) Michael Dexter FRS (born 15 May 1945) is a British haematologist and director of the

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, from 1998 to 2003.

Education

Dexter was inspired to take

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at night school and went on study

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and

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at the University of Salford. After graduating, he continued in academia and received a PhD from the

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in 1974 for research into

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. Dexter also received a

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degree from the University of Salford in 1982.

Career

Dexter was visiting fellow at the Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center and a professor of haematology at the

from 1985 to 1998. He was director of the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research and the

. He has authored over 360 articles in scientific journals including ''

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'' and is an editor of four books.

Awards and honours

Dexter was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1991.

References

, - {{DEFAULTSORT:Dexter, Michael 1945 births British medical administrators Fellows of the Royal Society Living people Academics of the Victoria University of Manchester British haematologists