Danny Altmann is a British immunologist, and Professor of Immunology at Imperial College London.[1][2]

Altmann earned a bachelor's degree from the University of London in 1980, and a PhD from the University of Bristol in 1983 on T cell immunity to herpesviruses.[3]

Altmann is the son of John Altmann,[4] who arrived as a refugee from the Holocaust on the Kindertransport,[5][6] and Marlene Altmann, who arrived after liberation from Auschwitz. Through her, he is in turn the great-grandson of German philanthropist Adolf Sternheim.[7]

Altmann runs a research lab at Imperial College's Hammersmith Hospital site, "focusing on HLA genes, T cells and NK cells in autoimmunity, cancer and infectious disease."[2] He has been based there since 1994.[8] Between 2011 and 2013 he was also Head of Pathogens, Immunity and Population Health at the Wellcome Trust. He now runs a suite of projects focussed on understanding the immunology of Long Covid,[9] which has included co-authoring The Long Covid Handbook.[10]

He is editor-in-chief of Oxford Open Immunology.[11] For 20 years, Altmann was editor of British Society for Immunology (BSI) journals, including 14-years as editor-in-chief at Immunology, and is an associate editor at Vaccine and Frontiers in Immunology.[8] Altmann is a trustee of the Medical Research Foundation.[2] He has sat on the Strategy Board of the African Research Excellence Fund since its inception [12]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, he has served in a number of policy advisory roles.[13][14] He has been a member of Independent SAGE since December 2021.[15] He was the guest on the BBC Radio 4 programme The Life Scientific in February 2023.[16]

References

  1. ↑ correspondent, Nicola Davis Science (December 30, 2020). "How well does the Oxford vaccine work? What we know so far". The Guardian – via www.theguardian.com.
  2. 1 2 3 "Prof. Danny Altmann". Bactivax. 19 November 2019.
  3. ↑ "Daniel Altmann (0000-0002-2436-6192)". orcid.org.
  4. ↑ "John Altmann" – via PressReader.
  5. ↑ Guardian Staff (October 15, 2016). "Family life: Kindertransport boys in London in 1939, There's a Kind of Hush, and Raspberry Splodge". The Guardian.
  6. ↑ "Kindertransport". January 17, 2021 – via Wikipedia.
  7. ↑ "Adolf Sternheim - ein Menschenfreund (in German)" (PDF). 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2013.
  8. 1 2 "Research - Professor Danny Altmann". www.imperial.ac.uk.
  9. ↑ "WILCO Long Covid study". Imperial College London. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
  10. ↑ Altmann, Gez Medinger,Danny (20 October 2022). The Long Covid Handbook.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ↑ https://academic.oup.com/ooim. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ↑ "Strategy Board". Africa Research Excellence Fund.
  13. ↑ "What do we know about the SARSCoV2 virus and its transmission". www.parliament.uk.
  14. ↑ "The Science and Technology Committee: News Updates". The Association for Science and Discovery Centres.
  15. ↑ "Who are we? | Independent SAGE". Retrieved 2023-03-08.
  16. ↑ "How T cells fight disease". Retrieved 14 March 2023.
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