Brigid Balfour

Dr Brigid Mary Balfour was a British scientist who studied cellular morphology and ultrastructure in relation to immune function. She pushed forward the study of dendritic cells, realising that they were derived from Langerhans cells and played an important role in initiating and promoting immune reactions.

Brigid Balfour was born in 1914 in St George Hanover Square, London to Hylda Snow Paget and Archibald Edward Balfour. Her maternal grandfather was Sir Richard Horner Paget, a British politician and baronet.

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