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Biography
Anne Dell CBE FRS (b. 11 Sept 1950) is an Australian biochemist specialising in the study of glycomics and the carbohydrate structures that modify proteins. She is currently Professor of Carbohydrate Biochemistry at Imperial College London.
Dell was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours.
Early life
Anne Dell was the youngest of seven children and grew up on a farm in the Australian outback, where she was educated at home by her mother using Correspondence School lessons until the age of eleven..
Education and research
After gaining a First Class Honours degree in Organic Chemistry from the University of Western Australia, Dell was awarded an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship to study for a PhD at the University of Cambridge. As she was awarded her PhD in 1975 her doctoral supervisor, Howard R. Morris, moved to Imperial College London as a lecturer in biochemistry and brought Dell with him. She would remain at Imperial for the rest of her career.