Professor Sir Peter LACHMANN ScD (Cambridge] FRCP FRCPath FRS FMedSci

Fellow since 1976 [1962]

Honorary Beekeeper

Emeritus Sheila Joan Smith Professor of Immunology

Email: pjl1000"at"cam.ac.uk

Website: http://www.acmedsci.ac.uk/p139.html

My principal research interests are: the study of the complement system; microbial immunology and vaccines; and immunopathology particularly of systemic LE and insect sting allergy.  I was President of the Royal College of Pathologists (1990-1993); Biological Secretary of the Royal Society (1993-1998); and Founder President of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences (1998-2002); and served on UNESCO's International Bioethics Committee (1993-1998).  In these capacities I became involved in the ethical and policy controversies surrounding vaccination, stem cells, transmissible spongiform encephalopathies and genetically modified food crops.

 

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