Freda Stevenson
Member of the board
Management
Medigene
Sweden
Biography
Freda Stevenson is Professor of Immunology within Medicine at the University of Southampton. She received her DPhil in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford in 1964. After appointments at the University of Sydney, the University of Oxford, at the Southampton General Hospital und the University of Southampton, Freda Stevenson became Professor of Immunology at the University of Southampton in 1997.Professor Stevenson has been involved in the initiation and establishment of research into lymphoma. She pioneered the use of immunogenetics to probe the origin and behavior of B-cell malignancies and she is the author of >250 papers. In 2015, she was awarded the Rai-Binet medal for her work on chronic lymphocytic leukemia by the International Workshop on CLL. She also pioneered the development of DNA fusion vaccines to activate immunity against cancer, which are in current clinical trials. In 2014 Professor Stevenson received the Jean Bernard Lifetime Achievement award from the European Haematology Association for her work. Professor Stevenson is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and is an Associate Editor of the top hematological journal Blood.
Research Interest
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
