Dan Davis (immunologist)

Daniel Michael Davis MBE FMedSci (born 1970) is Head of Life Sciences and Professor of Immunology at Imperial College London.

[2] He is the author of The Secret Body, The Beautiful Cure and The Compatibility Gene.

[4][5] Davis is a recognised as an expert in the field by the Nature journal of immunology.

[18][19] Working with Jack Strominger at Harvard University, Davis showed structured immune synapses for the Natural Killer cell.

[20] Davis also co-discovered membrane nanotubes, novel subcellular structures that allow trafficking of molecules and organelles between cells, and are exploited by pathogens.