Prof Danny Altmann
@daltmann.bsky.social
Professor of Immunology, Imperial College London. Editor of OUP Oxford Open Immunology. Co-author - Penguin Long Covid Handbook. Discusses: Covid-19, Long Covid, T cells, immunogenetics and HLA, respiratory infection, science policy, arboviruses, C19th lit
Akiko Iwasaki opening this #longcovid meeting
August 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Akiko Iwasaki opening this #longcovid meeting
Happy to have arrived in beautiful Santa Fe for this #kslongcovid26 symposium where the aim is to catalyse some real difference for the 400 million sufferers
August 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Happy to have arrived in beautiful Santa Fe for this #kslongcovid26 symposium where the aim is to catalyse some real difference for the 400 million sufferers
Given the huge clinical need, we look to the ME policy reboot with interest…yet weary and battle-scarred by decades of disingenuous policy proposals that always left an orphan specialty of under-funded, under-researched post infectious sequelae
July 22, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Given the huge clinical need, we look to the ME policy reboot with interest…yet weary and battle-scarred by decades of disingenuous policy proposals that always left an orphan specialty of under-funded, under-researched post infectious sequelae
Graduation Ceremony @imperialmed.bsky.social - a chance to celebrate with 3x PhD and 2x MSc graduates from the Boyton-Altmann team. Here displaying our fine head-gear to Franzi, Nicola and Freda
June 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Graduation Ceremony @imperialmed.bsky.social - a chance to celebrate with 3x PhD and 2x MSc graduates from the Boyton-Altmann team. Here displaying our fine head-gear to Franzi, Nicola and Freda
Don’t often find myself in agreement with William Hague, but this is apposite re keeping important science going 👇
May 27, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Don’t often find myself in agreement with William Hague, but this is apposite re keeping important science going 👇
This day 80y ago my mother liberated from Terezin Concentration Camp by the Red Army. She’d been brought there from Auschwitz. They offered her vodka & horse meat. She’d lost her mother, brother, home, friends, extended family. She went to Daggendorf Displaced Persons Camp,Munich, start her new life
May 9, 2025 at 4:31 AM
This day 80y ago my mother liberated from Terezin Concentration Camp by the Red Army. She’d been brought there from Auschwitz. They offered her vodka & horse meat. She’d lost her mother, brother, home, friends, extended family. She went to Daggendorf Displaced Persons Camp,Munich, start her new life
Good news: NIH conference travel ban reversed
April 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Good news: NIH conference travel ban reversed
Lab celebration for 3 happy PhD graduates - well done Franzi, David and Freda
March 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Lab celebration for 3 happy PhD graduates - well done Franzi, David and Freda
Back to work after a terrific weekend of relaxation with the Brontes at Haworth
March 10, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Back to work after a terrific weekend of relaxation with the Brontes at Haworth
I’d forgotten what an incredible treat of London tourism and local Victorian history it is to spend a few hours at Highgate Cemetery
March 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I’d forgotten what an incredible treat of London tourism and local Victorian history it is to spend a few hours at Highgate Cemetery
@tomgauld.bsky.social - I thought this was terrific!
February 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
@tomgauld.bsky.social - I thought this was terrific!
We’ve had a great few weeks of PhD viva successes in Altmann/Boyton lab! Congrats to Drs Pieper and Liu and huge thanks to examiners for all their input
January 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
We’ve had a great few weeks of PhD viva successes in Altmann/Boyton lab! Congrats to Drs Pieper and Liu and huge thanks to examiners for all their input
World University rankings for Medicine and Health
January 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
World University rankings for Medicine and Health
#HolocaustMemorialDay. Remembering my Grandmother Bertie, and my uncle,
Martin, who both died at Auschwitz
Martin, who both died at Auschwitz
January 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
#HolocaustMemorialDay. Remembering my Grandmother Bertie, and my uncle,
Martin, who both died at Auschwitz
Martin, who both died at Auschwitz
Sunday morning, reading a PhD thesis for viva tomorrow, and listening to @traceythorn.bsky.social. That was £3.40 well spent all those years back
January 12, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Sunday morning, reading a PhD thesis for viva tomorrow, and listening to @traceythorn.bsky.social. That was £3.40 well spent all those years back
Santa kindly brought my first record deck for several decades, so I’ve retrieved some favourite student days records including @traceythorn.bosky.social
December 29, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Santa kindly brought my first record deck for several decades, so I’ve retrieved some favourite student days records including @traceythorn.bosky.social
According to GoodReads I’ve had a lot of fun reading in 2024!
December 20, 2024 at 10:05 AM
According to GoodReads I’ve had a lot of fun reading in 2024!
Farewell, Jean Adamson, Topsy and Tim - you’ve been big in our family (so many good ones, especially where they collect up stuff for the charity jumble sale).
December 19, 2024 at 8:16 AM
Farewell, Jean Adamson, Topsy and Tim - you’ve been big in our family (so many good ones, especially where they collect up stuff for the charity jumble sale).
I don’t normally stray here into politics, but this is global health and child mortality: somewhat terrified this will negatively impact not just public health in the USA, but could normalise this view further afield
December 13, 2024 at 6:55 AM
I don’t normally stray here into politics, but this is global health and child mortality: somewhat terrified this will negatively impact not just public health in the USA, but could normalise this view further afield
As of now, all my stuff only on here, not the other place
December 9, 2024 at 6:00 PM
As of now, all my stuff only on here, not the other place
Another Journal Club? Many of us have some kind of Bronte thing, whether its Jane Eyre or just the Kate Bush song, but here Lyndall Gordon really shows Charlotte as pioneer of women writers seeking the space and a viable route to express independence and passion, linking to Woolf, Dickinson, Plath
November 27, 2024 at 8:19 AM
Another Journal Club? Many of us have some kind of Bronte thing, whether its Jane Eyre or just the Kate Bush song, but here Lyndall Gordon really shows Charlotte as pioneer of women writers seeking the space and a viable route to express independence and passion, linking to Woolf, Dickinson, Plath
Related stories?
November 20, 2024 at 8:11 AM
Related stories?
Terrific immunogenetics meeting at Kings College Cambridge with historical catch up from Sir Walter Bodmer
November 8, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Terrific immunogenetics meeting at Kings College Cambridge with historical catch up from Sir Walter Bodmer