Alain Townsend | |
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Website | https://www.rdm.ox.ac.uk/people/alain-townsend |
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Fields | Immunology |
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Thesis | Recognition by influenza virus specific cytotoxic T cell clones |
Doctoral advisor | Brigitte Askonas |
Alain Townsend is a British virologist who is a Professor of Medicine in the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford University.[1] His laboratory studies virology, mainly influenza, but more recently ebola.
After graduating from St Mary's Hospital, London, he went to the National Institute for Medical Research to study immunology.[2] He received his PhD in 1984, supervised by Brigitte Askonas.[3]