Charles Bangham

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Charles Bangham

Born
Charles R. M. Bangham
Alma mater University of Cambridge (BA)
University of Oxford (BM, BCh)
University of London (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields Virology
Immunology
Institutions Imperial College London
National Institute for Medical Research [1]
Thesis The cellular immune response to respiratory syncytial virus in mouse and man  (1987)
Website www.imperial.ac.uk/people/c.bangham

Charles Bangham FRS FMedSci FRCPath [2] holds the Chair in Immunology at Imperial College London. [3]

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Education

Bangham was educated at the University of Cambridge (BA) and the University of Oxford where he was awarded a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (BM, BCh). He completed his PhD on immune responses to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) while working at the National Institute for Medical Research in 1987. [4]

Research and career

Since 1987 Bangham has conducted research on the Human T-lymphotropic virus 1 (HTLV-1). [2] His contributions include the discovery of the viral synapse, the mechanism by which viruses including HTLV-1, HIV [5] and murine leukaemia virus (MLV) are transmitted from cell-to-cell, starting a new field in virology. [2] [6] [7]

Awards and honours

Bangham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019. [2] He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath).

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References

  1. Charles Bangham publications from Europe PubMed Central
  2. 1 2 3 4 Anon (2019). "Professor Charles Bangham FMedSci FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2019-04-24. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  3. Charles Bangham publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  4. Bangham, Charles R. M. (1987). The cellular immune response to respiratory syncytial virus in mouse and man. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). National Institute for Medical Research. OCLC   59722675. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.376958.
  5. "HTLV-1 The Forgotten Cousin of HIV - Professor Charles Bangham, Imperial College London • scipod.global". January 11, 2019.
  6. Phillips, Rodney E.; Rowland-Jones, Sarah; Nixon, Douglas F.; Gotch, Frances M.; Edwards, Jon P.; Ogunlesi, Afolabi O.; Elvin, John G.; Rothbard, Jonathan A.; Bangham, Charles R. M.; Rizza, Charles R.; McMichael, Andrew J. (1991). "Human immunodeficiency virus genetic variation that can escape cytotoxic T cell recognition". Nature. 354 (6353): 453–459. Bibcode:1991Natur.354..453P. doi: 10.1038/354453a0 . ISSN   0028-0836. PMID   1721107. S2CID   4257933. Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  7. Price, D. A.; Goulder, P. J. R.; Klenerman, P.; Sewell, A. K.; Easterbrook, P. J.; Troop, M.; Bangham, C. R. M.; Phillips, R. E. (1997). "Positive selection of HIV-1 cytotoxic T lymphocyte escape variants during primary infection". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 94 (5): 1890–1895. Bibcode:1997PNAS...94.1890P. doi: 10.1073/pnas.94.5.1890 . ISSN   0027-8424. PMC   20013 . PMID   9050875.