Stuart Mucklow

bmj;379/nov04_9/o2630/FAF1faStuart Mucklow was a consultant haematologist at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading from 2005 until his death. The eldest of four children of Lynn and Ted Mucklow, who were both paediatricians, Stuart grew up on the Isle of Wight. He was educated at Ryde School, where he quietly excelled at most things, gaining an entrance scholarship to Exeter College, Oxford, to study medicine, in 1987. The island nurtured a deep interest in the natural world that was to last all of his life, overlapping with his love of outdoor travel and adventure. He continued a high academic trajectory gaining one of the top firsts in his year and embarking on an intercalated PhD in Oxford with Siamon Gordon and Paris with Paul Crocker, which culminated in the sequence of sialoadhesin (CD169), the first and index member of the SIGLEC family of cell surface proteins. Time in the laboratory was…
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