Nancy Lane Perham, born in 1936 in Canada, is a cell biologist at the University of Cambridge and a Life Fellow of Girton College. She was educated at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and the University of Oxford. Her primary research centres on cell-to-cell junctions and interactions. Lane is an advocate for the promotion of women in science and engineering (SET) in higher education. She was appointed by John Major to the Citizen's Charter Advisory Panel and chaired the Working Party on Women in SET, which resulted in the publication of The Rising Tide report in 1994. She was the first director of WiSETI, an initiative to support women in SET at Cambridge, and was also involved in setting up the UK Athena Project to promote women in science more broadly. She was married to Richard Nelson Perham (d. 2015), the biochemist and former Master of St John's College.