Margaret Alison Baird was a New Zealand immunologist.
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Margaret Baird was a full professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Otago.
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Margaret Baird's research considered dendritic cells and their role in cancer and infectious disease.
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Margaret Baird attended the University of Otago, where she studied zoology and graduated in 1967.
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Margaret Baird developed debating and drama programs for the school students.
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Margaret Baird's husband joined the King George VI School in Honiara in 1970, and soon after Baird followed to teach science and art.
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Margaret Baird became interested in microbiology and enrolled on a postgraduate course in immunology at the University of Otago.
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Margaret Baird was the only woman and oldest person on the course.
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Margaret Baird eventually started a doctoral degree in transplant immunology, working with Barbara Heslop at the University of Otago.
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Margaret Baird was made a lecturer in the Microbiology Department at the University of Otago, where she investigated the role of dendritic cells in infectious diseases and cancer.
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When Margaret Baird retired in 2012 she was made a part time Professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Otago.
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Margaret Baird studied how p53 was involved in the regulation of dendritic cell function.
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Margaret Baird died in Dunedin on 19 September 2016, at the age of 71.