Danny Altmann Explained

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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 .[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." 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. Altmann is a trustee of the Medical Research Foundation. 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]

Notes and References

  1. News: Davis . Nicola . December 30, 2020 . How well does the Oxford vaccine work? What we know so far . . https://web.archive.org/web/20201230082051/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/30/how-well-does-the-oxford-vaccine-work-what-we-know-so-far . 2020-12-30.
  2. Web site: 19 November 2019 . Prof. Danny Altmann . Bactivax . 30 December 2020 . 30 December 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201230010710/https://www.bactivax.eu/principal-investigators-2/dannyaltmann . live .
  3. Web site: Daniel Altmann (0000-0002-2436-6192) . . 30 December 2020 . 24 December 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201224063658/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2436-6192 . live .
  4. News: 2018-05-04 . John Altmann . . PressReader . 30 January 2021 . 3 February 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210203230932/https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-jewish-chronicle/20180504/282321090630655 . live .
  5. News: Altmann . Danny . Snapshot: My father with other Kindertransport boys . October 15, 2016 . Family life: Kindertransport boys in London in 1939, There's a Kind of Hush, and Raspberry Splodge . The Guardian . 30 January 2021 . 31 May 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240531000654/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/15/family-life-kindertransport-boys-in-london-in-1939-theres-a-kind-of-hush-and-raspberry-splodge . live .
  6. Web site: 2009 . Adolf Sternheim - ein Menschenfreund (in German) . https://web.archive.org/web/20131020100837/http://www.lemgo.net/fileadmin/pdf-lemgo/aktuell/pressemitteilung/Rede_von_Frau_Hehner-Ruegge.pdf . 20 October 2013.
  7. Web site: Research - Professor Danny Altmann . . 30 December 2020 . 29 November 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201129132140/http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/d.altmann/research.html . live .
  8. Web site: WILCO Long Covid study . 2023-03-08 . Imperial College London . en-GB . 31 May 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240531000745/https://www.imperial.ac.uk/immunology-inflammation/research/covid-19-research/wilco/ . live .
  9. Book: Medinger, Gez . The long Covid handbook . Altmann . Danny . 2022 . Penguin Books . 978-1-5299-0012-5 . Penguin health handbooks . London . en . on1338680988 . 31 May 2024 . 31 May 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240531000705/https://search.worldcat.org/title/on1338680988 . live .
  10. Web site: Oxford Open Immunology . Oxford Academic . 30 January 2021 . 30 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210130234725/https://academic.oup.com/ooim . live .
  11. Web site: Strategy Board . Africa Research Excellence Fund . 30 January 2021 . 4 February 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210204010153/https://www.africaresearchexcellencefund.org.uk/strategy-board . dead .
  12. Web site: What do we know about the SARSCoV2 virus and its transmission . www.parliament.uk . 30 January 2021 . 24 November 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201124002457/https://www.parliament.uk/business/lords/media-centre/house-of-lords-media-notices/2020/may-20/what-do-we-know-about-the-sarscov2-virus-and-its-transmission/ . live .
  13. Web site: The Science and Technology Committee: News Updates . The Association for Science and Discovery Centres . 30 January 2021 . 23 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210123121044/https://www.sciencecentres.org.uk/coronavirus/science-and-technology-committee-news-updates/ . live .
  14. Web site: Who are we? . Independent SAGE . 2023-03-08 . en-GB . 29 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230329133805/https://www.independentsage.org/who-are-independent-sage/ . live .
  15. The Life Scientific . . Danny Altmann on how T cells fight disease . 14 March 2023 . 14 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230314093928/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jkqn . live .

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