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Danny Altmann
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InstitutionsImperial College London

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] and Marlene Altmann, who arrived after liberation from Auschwitz. Through her, he is in turn the great-grandson of German philanthropist Adolf Sternheim [de].[6]

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.[7] 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,[8] which has included co-authoring The Long Covid Handbook.[9]

He is editor-in-chief of Oxford Open Immunology.[10] 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.[7] 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.[11]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, he has served in a number of policy advisory roles.[12][13] He has been a member of Independent SAGE since December 2021.[14] He was the guest on the BBC Radio 4 programme The Life Scientific in February 2023.[15]

References

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  1. ^ Davis, Nicola (30 December 2020). "How well does the Oxford vaccine work? What we know so far". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 30 December 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Prof. Danny Altmann". Bactivax. 19 November 2019. Archived from the original on 30 December 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  3. ^ "Daniel Altmann (0000-0002-2436-6192)". ORCID. Archived from the original on 24 December 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  4. ^ "John Altmann". The Jewish Chronicle. 4 May 2018. Archived from the original on 3 February 2021. Retrieved 30 January 2021 – via PressReader.
  5. ^ Altmann, Danny (15 October 2016). "Family life: Kindertransport boys in London in 1939, There's a Kind of Hush, and Raspberry Splodge". The Guardian. Snapshot: My father with other Kindertransport boys. Archived from the original on 31 May 2024. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  6. ^ "Adolf Sternheim - ein Menschenfreund (in German)" (PDF). 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2013.
  7. ^ a b "Research - Professor Danny Altmann". Imperial College London. Archived from the original on 29 November 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  8. ^ "WILCO Long Covid study". Imperial College London. Archived from the original on 31 May 2024. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
  9. ^ Medinger, Gez; Altmann, Danny (2022). The long Covid handbook. Penguin health handbooks. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-1-5299-0012-5. OCLC 1338680988. Archived from the original on 31 May 2024. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
  10. ^ "Oxford Open Immunology". Oxford Academic. Archived from the original on 30 January 2021. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  11. ^ "Strategy Board". Africa Research Excellence Fund. Archived from the original on 4 February 2021. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  12. ^ "What do we know about the SARSCoV2 virus and its transmission". www.parliament.uk. Archived from the original on 24 November 2020. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  13. ^ "The Science and Technology Committee: News Updates". The Association for Science and Discovery Centres. Archived from the original on 23 January 2021. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  14. ^ "Who are we?". Independent SAGE. Archived from the original on 29 March 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
  15. ^ "Danny Altmann on how T cells fight disease". The Life Scientific. BBC Radio 4. Archived from the original on 14 March 2023. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
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