Biography
Marrack was born in England, and completed both undergraduate and Ph.D. work at New Hall, Cambridge. To earn her Ph.D, she worked at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology with Alan Munro, where she began to work on T cells. She later did postdoctoral work with Richard Dutton at the University of California, San Diego.
Her first faculty position was with the University of Rochester, followed by National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado and the University of Colorado.
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