Angus Dalgleish Explained

Angus Dalgleish
Birth Place:	Harrow, London, England
Alma Mater:	University College London
Party:	UK Independence Party (UKIP)

Angus George Dalgleish (born May 1950) FRCP FRCPath FMedSci is a professor of oncology at St George's, University of London, best known for his contributions to HIV/AIDS research.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} Dalgleish stood in 2015 for Parliament as a UKIP candidate.

Education

Angus George Dalgleish was born in May 1950 in Harrow, London.^{[5] [6]} Initially educated at the Harrow County School for Boys,^[5] Dalgleish received a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree from University College London with an intercalated bachelor's degree in Anatomy.^[5]

Career as medical researcher

After various positions in the United Kingdom, Dalgleish joined the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Mount Isa, Queensland, then progressed through positions at various hospitals in Brisbane, Australia, before moving to the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Sydney.^{[5] [6]}

After completion of his training, Dalgleish returned to work in the UK in 1984 at the Institute of Cancer Research.^{[5] [6]} He is a co-discoverer of the CD4 receptor as the major cellular receptor for HIV.^{[7] [8] [9] [10]} In 1986, he was appointed to a consulting position at Northwick Park Hospital, in 1991 he was made Foundation Professor of Oncology at St George's, University of London,^[5] and in 1994 he was appointed Visiting Professor at the Institute of Cancer Research in London.

In 1997, he founded Onyvax Ltd.,^[11] a privately-funded biotechnology company developing cancer vaccines, where he held the position as Research Director;^[12] it was dissolved in 2013.^[13] Dalgleish is a member of the medical board in Bionor Pharma. Dalgleish is on the scientific advisory board of Immodulon, and has stock options in Immunor AS, a disclosure he made in order to have his research work published.^[14]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dalgleish was a proponent of the lab leak theory.^[15]

2015 candidacy for Parliament

Dalgleish was a member of the UK Independence Party and stood as a candidate in Sutton & Cheam,^{[16] [17]} during the 2015 United Kingdom general election finishing fourth with 10.7% of the vote.^[18] Dalgleish campaigned for Leave.EU^[19] and appeared on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme presenting the case for Brexit.^{[20] [16] [21] [22]} He was an advocate of Leave Means Leave, a Eurosceptic group.^[23]

Awards and honours

Dalgleish was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2001^[24] and is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians the Royal College of Pathologists and a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.^[21] His citation on election to FMedSci reads:

Controversies

In October 2023, following a joint investigation analysing emails leaked in 2022 by Russian hacking group working for the Russian FSB, an article was published by Computer Weekly^[25] and Byline Times^[26] containing several controversial claims about Angus Dalgleish.

• That Dalgleish was a member of a secret group led by Richard Dearlove (former head of MI6), Gwythian Prins (a historian academic), and John Constable (of the Global Warming Policy Foundation) - who called themselves the "Covid Hunters".
• That in March 2020 the group prepared an 'Urgent Briefing for the Prime Minister and his Advisers which advised that COVID-19 originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology (see COVID-19 lab leak theory).
• That the group had briefed Boris Johnson that the man-made nature of the virus meant that the best candidate for vaccine development was the Norwegian Biovacc-19.^[27] Also that Dalgleish had been given stock options in the company Immunor which held the patents for this vaccine due to his significant involvement in the research behind its development.
• That when the scientific journal Nature Medicine published an article^[28] contradicting their viewpoints on the origin of COVID-19, the group considered this to be COVID-19 misinformation by China.
• That following these suspicions the group had advised Michael Gove to secretly start electronic surveillance on the journal using MI5 resources to uncover them as part of a “China Persons of Influence Network” of senior officials, politicians and academics allegedly under the influence of the communist state. (For examples, see Chinese information operations and information warfare and Chinese espionage in the United States.)
• That the group had then contacted a range of other Western intelligence agencies to brief them on the supposed Chinese activity in a briefing titled 'The Three Interlocking Arms of The Intelligence Case against PRC which claimed China was “attempting to control the terms of the origin of COVID-19 debate with active help from non-Chinese agents of influence, notably at the scientific journal Nature.
• That the group had worked together previously to replace Theresa May with Boris Johnson and had previously attempted to replace the National Security Council.

Publications and contributions

According to Semantic Scholar, Dalgleish has 495 publications, 21,234 citations, and 541 "highly influential citations".^[29]

• Smith PL . Piadel K . Dalgleish AG . Directing T-Cell Immune Responses for Cancer Vaccination and Immunotherapy . Vaccines . Basel . 25 November 2021 . 9 . 12 . 1392 . article number 1392 . 10.3390/vaccines9121392 . in Special Issue Cancer Immunotherapy and Vaccines Research. free . 8708201 .
• Sørensen . B . Susrud . A . Dalgleish . AG . Biovacc-19: A Candidate Vaccine for Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2) Developed from Analysis of its General Method of Action for Infectivity . QRB Discovery . 1 . 2 June 2020 . e6 . 10.1017/qrd.2020.8 . 7468800 .

Bibliography

• Book: The Origin of the Virus: The hidden truths behind the microbe that killed millions of people . Paolo . Barnard . Steven . Quay . Angus . Dalgleish . 978-1-85-457107-6 . Clinical Press Ltd.. 2021.
• Book: The Death of Science: The retreat from reason in the post-modern world . Paul . Goddard . Angus . Dalgleish . 978-1-85-4571137 . Clinical Press Ltd.. 2023.

External links

• Explosive study claims to prove Chinese scientists created COVID

Notes and References

1. 15732527 . Novel immunotherapeutic approaches to prostate cancer . Current Opinion in Molecular Therapeutics . 2005 . 7 . 1 . 30–34 . Dalgleish . Angus . Whelan . M.
2. HIV and CD26 . . 1995 . 7585208 . 10.1038/nm0995-881 . Dalgleish . Angus . 1 . 9 . 881–2 . 2132301 .
3. Immunotherapeutic potential of whole tumour cells . Stephen Ward . David Casey . Marie-Christine Labarthe . Michael Whelan . Angus Dalgleish . Hardev Pandha . Stephen Todryk . 10.1007/s00262-002-0286-2 . Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy . September 2002 . 51 . 7 . 351–357 . 12192534 . 8959770 . 11033012 .
4. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20160406201620/http://sgul.ac.uk/research-profiles-a-z/angus-dalgleish. 6 April 2016. Professor Angus Dalgleish. sgul.ac.uk. London. University of London.
5. Web site: Angus Dalgleish Biography . St. George's University of London . 10 October 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080616042749/http://www.sgul.ac.uk/index.cfm?733CD1EE-F306-7ABF-9D50-77AF3EA71A4A . 16 June 2008 . dead .
6. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20081006152920/http://www.londononcology.com/about_us/Professor_Angus_Dalgleish.aspx. Angus Dalgleish Biography. London Oncology Clinic. 10 October 2008. 6 October 2008. dead.
7. Dalgleish. Angus G.. Beverley. Peter C. L.. Clapham. Paul R.. Crawford. Dorothy H.. Greaves. Melvyn F.. Weiss. Robin A.. The CD4 (T4) antigen is an essential component of the receptor for the AIDS retrovirus. Nature. 312. 5996. 1984. 763–767. 6096719. 10.1038/312763a0. 1984Natur.312..763D. 4349809. free.
8. Book: Molecular and Cell Biology of Sexually Transmitted Diseases . 1992. David . Wilks. Angus . Dalgleish. Springer . 978-0-412-36510-2. 283.
9. Web site: Biography . Hasumi International Research Foundation . 10 October 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20081121052346/http://www.hasumi-foundation.org/bio011.html. 21 November 2008 . live.
10. Book: Berridge, Virginia . AIDS in the UK . 52 . 978-0-19-820473-2 . Oxford University Press . 1996.
11. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20160705091535/https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/-QItYxGl82AVkna5aPROyaOk8g4/appointments. 5 July 2016. Angus George DALGLEISH, born May 1950. Companies House, Government of the United Kingdom. London.
12. Web site: Corporate Fact Sheet . https://web.archive.org/web/20041207140135/http://www.onyvax.com/data/Onyvax%20Corporate%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf . dead . 7 December 2004 . Onyvax Ltd. . 10 October 2008 .
13. Web site: ONYVAX LIMITED. 23 November 2019. Companies House Service.
14. 10.1017/qrd.2020.8. Biovacc-19: A Candidate Vaccine for Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2) Developed from Analysis of its General Method of Action for Infectivity. 2020. Sørensen. B.. Susrud. A.. Dalgleish. A.G.. QRB Discovery. 1. e6. 34192262. 7468800. 219811749. free. 4 June 2020. 4 June 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200604012645/https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/DBBC0FA6E3763B0067CAAD8F3363E527/S2633289220000083a.pdf/biovacc19_a_candidate_vaccine_for_covid19_sarscov2_developed_from_analysis_of_its_general_method_of_action_for_infectivity.pdf. live.
15. News: . UK scientist feels vindicated as focus turns to Wuhan lab. Sean . O'Neill . 21 May 2021 . 19 January 2022 .
16. Web site: Angus Dalgleish: 2015 Parliamentary Candidate for Sutton & Cheam + Representative for Cheam. UKIP Sutton Borough. https://web.archive.org/web/20160305010226/http://ukipsutton.org/index.php?page=angus-dangleish. 5 March 2016. 2015. Angus Dalgleish.
17. News: Murphy-Pyle. Mike. 4 March 2014. Cancer expert Professor Angus Dalgleish to stand for UKIP in Sutton and Cheam. Sutton Guardian. 29 April 2015. 18 May 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150518083625/http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/11052064.Cancer_expert_to_stand_as_UKIP_MP_candidate_in_Sutton_and_Cheam/. live.
18. Web site: UK Polling Report. ukpollingreport.co.uk. 10 May 2015. 18 November 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211118123944/http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/suttonandcheam/. dead.
19. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20160422161113/http://www.theguardian.com/politics/shortcuts/2016/feb/09/ukip-cancer-europe-angus-dalgleish-brexit. 22 April 2016. Is this doctor (and UKIP candidate) right that EU migrants will destroy the NHS?. The Guardian. London. Anon. 2016.
20. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20160701131353/https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/jun/30/scientist-complains-to-bbc-about-being-misled-over-radio-4-interview. 1 July 2016. Scientist complains to BBC about being misled over Radio 4 interview. The Guardian. Roy Greenslade. 2016. London.
21. Web site: Angus Dalgleish. 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160614061659/http://leave.eu/en/our-campaign/our-messengers/91. 14 June 2016. Consultant oncologist Angus Dalgleish. leave.eu.
22. Cressey. Daniel. Academics across Europe join 'Brexit' debate. Nature. 530. 7588. 2016. 15. 10.1038/530015a. 26842034. 2016Natur.530...15C. free.
23. Web site: Co-Chairmen – Political Advisory Board – Supporters . Leave Means Leave . 26 February 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171024153425/http://www.leavemeansleave.eu/who-we-are/ . 24 October 2017 . dead .
24. Web site: Anon. 2001. Professor Angus Dalgleish FMedSci. acmedsci.ac.uk. London. https://web.archive.org/web/20160705115117/http://www.acmedsci.ac.uk/fellows/fellows-directory/ordinary-fellows/professor-angus-dalgleish/. 5 July 2016. Academy of Medical Sciences.
25. News: 3 October 2023 . Top science journal faced secret attacks from Covid conspiracy theory group . 3 October 2023 . Computer Weekly . 4 October 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231004035918/https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366553435/Top-science-journal-faced-secret-attacks-from-Covid-conspiracy-theory-group . live .
26. News: Duncan . Campbell . Bill . Goodwin . Guy . Taylor . 2023-10-02 . The Brexit Conspiracy Files: Top Science Journal Faced Secret Attacks . 2023-10-15 . Byline Times . en-GB . 12 October 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231012174048/https://bylinetimes.com/2023/10/02/the-brexit-conspiracy-files-top-science-journal-faced-secret-attacks/ . live .
27. Web site: Sørensen . Birger . Susrud . Andres . Dalgleish . Angus George . Biovacc-19: A Candidate Vaccine for Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2) Developed from Analysis of its General Method of Action for Infectivity . QRB discovery . e6 . 10.1017/qrd.2020.8 . 2020 . 9 October 2023 . 10 October 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231010212724/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34192262/ . live .
28. Andersen . Kristian G. . Rambaut . Andrew . Lipkin . W. Ian . Holmes . Edward C. . Garry . Robert F. . April 2020 . The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 . Nature Medicine . en . 26 . 4 . 450–452 . 10.1038/s41591-020-0820-9 . 1546-170X. free . 7095063 .
29. Web site: A. Dalgleish . Semantic Scholar . 2024-01-06 . www.semanticscholar.org . en . 10 November 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231110171029/https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/A.-Dalgleish/6567001 . live .