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]
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