Martin Glennie


Martin J. Glennie is professor of immunochemistry at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom.

Career

Glennie earned his BSc and PhD at the University of Southampton, and is the current Head of the Cancer Sciences Unit there. Glennie is on the editorial board of the scientific journal mAbs published by the Taylor & Francis Group.

Public media interest

The clinical trial of an anti-CD40 monoclonal antibody chiLOB7/4 developed in Glennie's laboratory was reported by The Daily Telegraph in August 2013. Glennie stressed that “Ipilimumab works by taking the brakes off part of the immune system called T cells, while our compound revs up the T cells – it is like giving them a caffeine hit.".

Personal life

Glennie is a keen angler, winning second prize in the Baltimore Deep Sea angling Festival 2014, South West Ireland.