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Dame Ingrid Victoria Allen
DBE FMedSci
Born(1932-06-30)30 June 1932
Belfast
Died21 April 2020(2020-04-21) (aged 87)
NationalityBritish
Alma materQueen's University Belfast
Known for
Awards
  • CBE
    (1993)
  • FMedSci (1998)
  • DBE
    (2001)
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Websitehttp://www.profingridallen.co.uk

Dame Ingrid Victoria Allen,

neurodegeneration, neurovirology and demyelinating diseases, such as multiple sclerosis
.

Education and early life

Allen was born in Belfast in 1932. Her parents were the Reverend Robert Allen and Doris Allen. She attended Ashley Prep Belfast and Cheltenham Ladies College before going on to study medicine at Queen's University Belfast, graduating in 1957.[1]

Career and research

Allen established the Regional Neuropathology Service for Northern Ireland in 1972, becoming its first leader. This provided biopsies and autopsies for conditions such as brain tumours, head injuries, brain infections, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease.[1] She has published over 200 papers, spanning over 60 years.[1] Her work is focused chiefly on multiple sclerosis, viral infections of the nervous system and penetrating head injury. Her research achievements include discovering markers for multiple sclerosis at the cellular and molecular level,[2] research into the role of viruses in multiple sclerosis,[3] the observation that measles virus spreads transneuronally and probably transsynaptically within the nervous system[4] and research into the cellular level response to penetrating head injury.[5]

Allen was Vice President of the

Research and Development for Health and Personal Social Services in Northern Ireland.[1] In this role, she was responsible for developing the research strategy “Research for Health and Wellbeing”, published in 1999.[6] She held this role until 2002.[1] She has also served on the Medical Research Council and on the Joint Medical Advisory Committee of the Higher Education Funding Council for England.[7]

Awards and honours

Allen was elected to the

Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998.[9] She was granted an honorary doctorate in Medical Sciences from her alma mater Queen's University Belfast in 2003 before being granted both a CBE in 1993 followed by a DBE in 2001, both for Medical Research.[10] Queen's University Belfast honoured Allen in 2008 with a portrait which hangs in the university's Great Hall - at the time only the third female academic from Queen's to be recognised in this way.[11]

Personal life

Allen was an elder in the McCracken Memorial

Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Dame Ingrid Allen official website". Retrieved 17 July 2018.
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  6. ^ "Research & Development in Northern Ireland newsletter - Autumn 2006" (PDF). Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  7. ^ "Dame Ingrid Allen official website - CV". Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  8. ^ "Ingrid Victora Allen, Royal Irish Academy website". 19 October 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  9. ^ "Academy of Medical Sciences Fellows Directory - Dame Ingrid Allen". Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  10. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4
    . Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  11. ^ "Queen's University Belfast Development and Alumni Relations Office - Celebrating International Women's Day 2015". Retrieved 17 July 2018.
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