Andrew Wyllie

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Andrew David Hamilton Wyllie (born before 1964) is a British pathologist at Cambridge University and Addenbrooke's Hospital .

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Wyllie earned a Bachelor of Sciences (B. Sc.) From the University of Aberdeen in Scotland in 1964 and a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB ChB ) in 1967 and a Ph.D. in 1975. At the beginning of the 1970s he coined the term apoptosis , outlined the characteristics of this programmed cell death, its differences from necrosis and its significance for human diseases.

Until his retirement in 2011, Wyllie was Professor of Pathology and Head of the Department of Cancer and Apoptosis at the Department of Pathology at Cambridge University and Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge , England.

Wyllie received the Bertner Award from the University of Texas in 1994, became a member (Fellow) of the Royal Society and the Academia Europaea in 1995 and received the Hans Bloemendal Award from the University of Nijmegen in 1998 and a Gairdner Foundation International Award in 1999 .

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  1. ^ MD Anderson Cancer Center - Research / Awards. In: www3.mdanderson.org. Retrieved March 30, 2018 .
  2. ^ Fellows of the Royal Society (royalsociety.org); Retrieved July 18, 2011
  3. ^ Membership directory: Andrew Wyllie. Academia Europaea, accessed January 12, 2018 .
  4. Hans Bloemendal Medal 2010 (PDF, 476 kB) at the Nijmwegen Center for Molecular Life Sciences at the University of Nijmegen (ncmls.eu); Retrieved July 19, 2011
  5. Andrew H. Wyllie, Ph.D. at the Gairdner Foundation (gairdner.org); Retrieved August 10, 2012