Robin Wayne Carrell (born 5 April 1936) is a New Zealand-born haematologist. Born in 1936, Carrell was educated at

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from 1949 to 1953. He graduated

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from the

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in 1959, and BSc(Hons) in chemistry and biochemistry from the University of Canterbury and Lincoln College in 1965. He completed his PhD at the

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in 1967 and in 1968 he was appointed head of clinical biochemistry at

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, the department later becoming part of the

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. As a spin-off from his research he co-founded biotechnology company Canterbury Scientific in 1985. He returned to Cambridge the following year as professor of haematology, retiring in 2003, but as professor emeritus he has continued his research at Cambridge. He retired from the board of directors of Canterbury Scientific in 2012. In 1986 he won the

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, at the time the highest award in New Zealand science. He was elected a

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in 1980, a Fellow of

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in 1987, and a

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in 2002.

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1936 births Living people People educated at Christchurch Boys' High School University of Otago alumni University of Canterbury alumni Lincoln University (New Zealand) alumni Hematologists Academic staff of the University of Otago New Zealand Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand New Zealand medical researchers English medical researchers 20th-century New Zealand scientists {{NewZealand-academic-bio-stub