Peter Lachmann
| Sir Peter Lachmann | |
|---|---|
| Born | 23 December 1931 |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | The immunological properties of cell nuclei, with special reference to the serological aspects and patho-genesis of systemic Lupus Erythematosus (1962) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robin Coombs and Henry Kunkel |
| Doctoral students | Mark Walport |
| Notable awards |
Fellow of the Royal Society Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences |
Sir Peter Julius Lachmann, ScD, FRS, FMedSci (born 23 December 1931) is a British immunologist, specifically a complementologist. He is emeritus Sheila Joan Smith Professor of Immunology at the University of Cambridge, a fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge and honorary fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and of Imperial College. He was knighted for service to medical science in 2002.
Born in Berlin in 1931, he moved to London in 1938. He went to school at Christ's College, Finchley, then trained in medicine at Cambridge and University College Hospital, graduating in 1956, and obtained a PhD (1962) and ScD (1974) at Cambridge in immunology. He has held a chair at Cambridge University and served as President of the Royal College of Pathologists, Vice President and Biological Secretary of the Royal Society, and Founder President of the UK’s Academy of Medical Sciences among many other positions. His posts specifically in immunology have included Head and Honorary Head of the Medical Research Council Group on Mechanisms in Tumour Immunity and Honorary Director of the MRC Mechanisms in Tumour Immunity Unit. He was also at one point Associate Editor of the journal Clinical and Experimental Immunology among his other published work on the complement system and immunopathology. from 1976 to 1999, he was Honorary Clinical Immunologist with the Cambridge Health Authority. Lachmann has also won numerous international accolades including a Gold Medal from the European Complement Network in 1997, the Medicine and Europe Senior Prize, Academie des Sciences de la Santé in 2003.
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