12 Facts About Peter Lachmann

Peter Lachmann was 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.

Peter Lachmann was knighted for service to medical science in 2002.

Peter Lachmann went to school at Christ's College, Finchley, then trained in medicine at Cambridge and University College Hospital, graduating in 1956, and obtained PhD and ScD degrees at Cambridge in immunology.

Peter Lachmann has previously worked on many aspects of complement biology; on microbial subversion of the innate immune response; on the immunology of measles, on systemic lupus erythematosus and on insect sting allergies.

Peter Lachmann 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.

Peter Lachmann was at one point Associate Editor of the journal Clinical and Experimental Immunology.

Peter Lachmann has won a Gold Medal from the European Complement Network in 1997, the Medicine and Europe Senior Prize of the Academie des Sciences de la Sante in 2003.

Peter Lachmann was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and Honorary Foreign Member Czech Academy of Medicine.

Peter Lachmann was an honorary member of the British Society for Immunology.

Peter Lachmann helped produce the Royal Society's first report on GM crops in 1998.

Peter Lachmann was a proponent of the defence of reason and scepticism in scientific academia and on topics that extend from vaccine scares to stem cell technology and to alternative medicine.

Peter Lachmann was a bee keeper and this interest has led to an interest in the evolution of group behaviour in both bees and humans and the role of religious prescription as the building blocks of cultural evolution.