Aileen Hogan obituary

My wife, Aileen Hogan, who has died of cancer aged 59, was a researcher and administrator in molecular and developmental biology.

Daughter of James Hogan, a salesman, and his wife, Mona, a nurse, Aileen was born in the Canadian capital, Ottawa. She grew up in Richmond Hill, Ontario, and went to St Joseph’s Morrow Park school in Toronto. After graduating from the University of Toronto, she worked at McMaster University with Phil Branton, the professor of pathology, in the early days of research into tyrosine kinases (enzymes involved in the development of cancer). She began her PhD in 1981 at the University of Western Ontario in the cancer research laboratory, which was where I met her. She was at the centre of a group of friends who worked hard and played hard.