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Barbara Farnsworth Heslop (née Cupit, 26 January 1925 – 20 December 2013) was a New Zealand immunologist specialising in
transplantation immunology Transplant rejection occurs when Organ transplant, transplanted tissue is rejected by the recipient's immune system, which destroys the transplanted tissue. Transplant rejection can be lessened by determining the molecular similitude between don ...
and
immunogenetics Immunogenetics or immungenetics is the branch of Medical Immunology and Medical Genetics that explores the relationship between the immune system and genetics. Autoimmune diseases, such as type 1 diabetes, are complex genetic traits which result ...
.


Biography

Born in Auckland, Heslop was educated at
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from 1938 to 1941 and then attended the University of Otago, graduating MB ChB in 1949 and MD in 1954. She married surgeon John Herbert Heslop, noted for his work on skin carcinogenesis. They had two daughters:
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, a transplant scientist; and Hilary, a food specialist. Heslop gained recognition in the medical community for both her research and her teaching, at a time when women scientists were scarce. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) for services to surgical sciences in 1975. In 1990, in honour of her research achievements she was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand mainly based on her publications on allogeneic lymphocyte cytotoxicity (a
natural killer cell Natural killer cells, also known as NK cells or large granular lymphocytes (LGL), are a type of cytotoxic lymphocyte critical to the innate immune system that belong to the rapidly expanding family of known innate lymphoid cells (ILC) and repres ...
mediated phenomenon). The same year, she and her husband John Heslop were joint recipients of the Sir Louis Barnett Medal awarded by the RACS. In the
1991 New Year Honours The New Year Honours 1991 were appointments by Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by people of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth. They were published on 28 December 1990 for the United Kingdom, N ...
, Heslop was appointed a
Commander of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
, for services to medical education. Heslop died in Dunedin in 2013. In 2017, Heslop was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "
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", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand.


Heslop Medal

To commemorate Heslop's work and that of her husband, John Heslop, the Heslop Medal was established by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2004 to recognise and reward outstanding contributions to the Board of Basic Surgical Education and Training and its committees.


Selected publications

* * * * * (A personal reflection on the anniversary of the
Cartwright Inquiry The Cartwright Inquiry was a committee of inquiry held in New Zealand from 1987 to 1988 that was commissioned by the Minister of Health, Michael Bassett, to investigate whether, as alleged in an article in ''Metro'' magazine, there had been a f ...
.)


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Full list of publications on Google Scholar
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