Evelyn Glennie Evelyn Glennie Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, (born 19 July 1965) is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist. She has been profoundly deaf since the age of 12 and has taught herself to hear with parts of her body other than her ears. Glennie was selected as one of the two laureates for the Polar Music Prize of 2015. Glennie was born and raised in Aberdeenshire. Her father was Herbert Arthur Glennie, an accordionist in a Scottish country dance band, and the strong, indigenous musical traditions of north-east Scotland were important in the development of the young musician, whose first instruments were
Martin Glennie Martin Glennie Martin J. Glennie is professor of immunochemistry (antibodies) at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. Glennis 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 (monoclonal antibodies) published by the Taylor & Francis Group. 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