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