Sir david lane biography

British politician (1922–1998)

For other people named David Lane, see David Lane (disambiguation).

Sir David William Stennis Stuart Lane (24 September 1922 – 16 November 1998) was a British Conservative politician.

Lane was educated at Eton College, Trinity College, Cambridge and Yale University. He became a barrister, called to the bar by Middle Temple in 1955. From 1956 to 1959, he was secretary of the British Iron and Steel Federation. From 1959 to 1967, he worked for Shell International Petroleum in their trade relations department.

Lane contested Vauxhall in 1964 and Cambridge in 1966. He was Member of Parliament for Cambridge from a 1967 by-election until he resigned in 1976. He was Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1972 to 1974. He was the first director of the Commission for Racial Equality (1977–82).

He was knighted in 1983 and became Chairman of the National Association of Youth Clubs after he left Parliament.^[1]

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British immunologist, molecular biologist and cancer researcher

For other people named David Lane, see David Lane (disambiguation).

Sir David Philip Lane (born 1 July 1952) is a British immunologist, molecular biologist and cancer researcher. He is currently working in the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology at the Karolinska Institute and is Chairman of Chugai Pharmabody. He is best known for the discovery of p53, one of the most important tumour suppressor genes.^[3]

Education

Lane attended The John Fisher School in Purley, South London. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at University College, London where he studied auto-immunity under the supervision of Avrion Mitchison.

Career and research

Lane carried out postdoctoral research first at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) in London with Lionel Crawford and then at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York with Joseph Sambrook. On returning to the UK, Lane set up his own laboratory with Cancer Research Campaign (CRC) fundi

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