Nancy Lane

Nancy Lane is a professor of cell biology at Cambridge University. Recipient of the Governor General's Gold Medal for top graduate at Dalhousie University, she holds a doctorate of philosophy from the University of Oxford. Lane did her postdoctoral research studies at New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine and at Yale University, and received a higher doctorate of science from Cambridge University.

An international authority on invertebrate cell junctions, Lane has chaired various scientific editorial boards and is also an advocate and consultant to the British government on gender parity in the sciences. She has held visiting professorships in Europe and South America and was admitted to the Order of the British Empire for services to science. President of the Institute of Biology, she is past vice-president and a fellow of the Zoological Society of London. She has chaired the United Kingdom's Athena Project for Women in Science, is a fellow and tutor for science graduates at Girton College, Cambridge, and was recently elected to the Nova Scotia Hall of Fame for Science.