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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 [de].[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 is editor-in-chief of Oxford Open Immunology.[9] 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 [10]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, he has served in a number of policy advisory roles.[11][12]

References

  1. ^ correspondent, Nicola Davis Science (December 30, 2020). "How well does the Oxford vaccine work? What we know so far" – via www.theguardian.com.
  2. ^ a b c "Prof. Danny Altmann". Bactivax.
  3. ^ "Daniel Altmann (0000-0002-2436-6192)". orcid.org.
  4. ^ "PressReader.com - Your favorite newspapers and magazines". www.pressreader.com.
  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. ^ a b "Research - Professor Danny Altmann". www.imperial.ac.uk.
  9. ^ "Validate User".
  10. ^ "Strategy Board". Africa Research Excellence Fund.
  11. ^ "What do we know about the SARSCoV2 virus and its transmission". www.parliament.uk.
  12. ^ "The Science and Technology Committee: News Updates". The Association for Science and Discovery Centres.
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