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Danny Altmann on how T cells fight disease

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The Joy of the Job, Danny?

You work on our immune response to all sorts of diseases. For you, or any infectious disease where pathogen enters the body and our immune system has to develop a response to it, that's your area. I think it's, you know, my focus obviously is these HLA and T cell interactions. So that's been my drive all through my career. And yet I've applied it to many, many different autoimmune diseases, cancers infectious diseases. Over the years, that's been something quite confusing to my colleagues who thought perhaps I was a bit dilatante. You know, why is it in one year, he was really keen on anthrax? And then a few years later

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