Danny Altmann

Danny Altmann
Academic background
Education	University of London University of Bristol
Academic work
Institutions	Imperial 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

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. "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. "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.