Dan Davis (immunologist)

Daniel Michael Davis MBE FMedSci (born 2 August 1970) is Head of Life Sciences and Professor of Immunology at Imperial College London. Davis was previously Professor of Immunology at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Self Defence, The Secret Body, The Beautiful Cure and The Compatibility Gene. His research, using microscopy to study immune cell biology has helped understand how immune cells interact with each other.

He co-discovered the immunological synapse and membrane nanotubes.