BSc, PhD, FRS, MD (honoris causa)
- Born
- 18 June 1918
Southport, Queensland, Australia - Died
- 5 June 2001
- Occupation
- Author and Haematologist
- Alternative Names
- Race, Ruth Ann (married name, 6 April 1956 - )
Summary
Dr Ruth Sanger was an internationally known expert in blood grouping, who for many years worked for the Medical Research Council in London.
Ruth Sanger, the daughter of Hubert and Katharine Mary Ross (née Cameron) Sanger, obtained her Science Degree from Sydney of University in 1940. She then worked in the blood-grouping laboratory of the Sydney Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service. After the Second World War Sanger moved to London and worked for Dr Robert Race, her future husband, at the Medical Research Council. In 1950 she co-wrote Blood Groups in Man, with her husband and they released their sixth and final edition in 1975. Dr Sanger also contributed papers to medical and genetic journals. She was admitted as a fellow of Britain's Royal Society in 1972 and in the same year she was a joint receiptant of the Gairdner Foundation Award. In 1983 Dr Sanger retired as director of the British Medical Research Council, a position she had held for ten years. She was a member of the International Society of Blood Transfusion and an affiliate of similar groups in Canada, Germany, Mexico and Norway. The British Blood Transfusion Society has established the Race and Sanger Award.
