Angus Dalgleish

Angus Dalgleish
Born May 1950 (age 66)[1]
London Borough of Harrow
Alma mater University College London
Employer St George's, University of London
Known for HIV/AIDS research[2]
Political party UK Independence Party (UKIP)
Website www.sgul.ac.uk/research-profiles-a-z/angus-dalgleish

Angus George Dalgleish (born May 1950 in Harrow, London)[1][3][4] MD FRCP FRCPath FMedSci[2] is a Professor of Oncology at St George's, University of London known for his contributions to HIV/AIDS research.[5][6][7][8] He is a Eurosceptic and campaigned for Leave.EU and Brexit during the UK withdrawal from the EU as a member of the UK Independence Party (UKIP).[9][10][11][12][13]

Education

Initially educated at the Harrow County School for Boys,[3] Dalgleish received a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree from University College London with an intercalated Bachelor of Science degree in Anatomy.[3]

Career

Medical research

After various positions in the United Kingdom, Dalgleish joined the flying doctor service in Mount Isa, Queensland, then progressed through positions at various hospitals in Brisbane, Australia, before moving to the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Sydney.[3][4]

After completion of his training, Dalgleish returned to work in the UK in 1984 at the Institute of Cancer Research,[3][4] where he helped identify CD4 as the major cellular receptor for HIV.[14] [15][16][17] In 1986, he was appointed to a consulting position at Northwick Park Hospital, in 1991 he was made Foundation Professor of Oncology at St George's, University of London,[3] and in 1994 he was appointed Visiting Professor at the Institute of Cancer Research in London.[18]

In 1997, he founded Onyvax Ltd.,[1] a privately funded biotechnology company developing cancer vaccines, where he holds a position as Research Director.[19] He is also a member of the medical board in Bionor Pharma.

Political career

Dalgleish is a member of the UK Independence Party and stood as a candidate in Sutton & Cheam,[9][20] during the United Kingdom general election, 2015 finishing fourth with 10.7% of the vote.[21] Unlike many of his colleagues in the scientific community,[13][22] he campaigned for Leave.EU[10][23] and appeared on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme presenting the case for Brexit.[11]

Awards and honours

Dalgleish was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2001[2] and is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians the Royal College of Pathologists and a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.[12] His citation on election to FMedSci reads:

“ Professor Angus Dalgleish is Professor of Oncology at St Georges Hospital Medical School London. He has made seminal observations relating to the virology of HIV. In particular he identified CD4 as a major receptive for HIV in humans, produced the first report of a link between Slim Disease in Africa and HIV infection. He also identified the close correlation between the immune response and the presence of tropical spastic paraparesis in patients infected with the HTLV-1 virus.[2] ”

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Angus George DALGLEISH, born May 1950". companieshouse.gov.uk. London: Companies House. Archived from the original on 2016-07-05.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Anon (2001). "Professor Angus Dalgleish FMedSci". acmedsci.ac.uk. London: Academy of Medical Sciences. Archived from the original on 2016-07-05.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Angus Dalgleish Biography". St. George's University of London. Archived from the original on 2008-06-16. Retrieved 2008-10-10.
  4. 1 2 3 "Angus Dalgleish Biography". London Oncology Clinic. Archived from the original on 2008-10-06. Retrieved 2008-10-10.
  5. ↑ Dalgleish, Angus; Whelan, M (2005). "Novel immunotherapeutic approaches to prostate cancer". Current Opinion in Molecular Therapeutics (7): 30–34. PMID 15732527.
  6. ↑ Dalgleish, Angus (1995). "HIV and CD26". Nature Medicine. 1 (9): 881–2. doi:10.1038/nm0995-881. PMID 7585208.
  7. ↑ Stephen Ward; David Casey; Marie-Christine Labarthe; Michael Whelan; Angus Dalgleish; Hardev Pandha; Stephen Todryk (September 2002). "Immunotherapeutic potential of whole tumour cells". Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy. 51 (7): 351–357. doi:10.1007/s00262-002-0286-2. PMID 12192534.
  8. ↑ "Professor Angus Dalgleish". sgul.ac.uk. London: University of London. Archived from the original on 2016-04-06.
  9. 1 2 Angus Dalgleish (2015). "Angus Dalgleish: 2015 Parliamentary Candidate for Sutton & Cheam + Representative for Cheam". UKIP Sutton Borough. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05.
  10. 1 2 James Slack (2016). "'Migrants are pushing NHS to breaking point': Top cancer doctor warns health tourists are bleeding hospitals dry with demand for treatment". dailyfail.co.uk. London: Daily Mail. Archived from the original on 2016-03-11.
  11. 1 2 Roy Greenslade (2016). "Scientist complains to BBC about being misled over Radio 4 interview". guardian.com. London: The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2016-07-01.
  12. 1 2 Angus Dalgleish (2016). "Consultant oncologist Angus Dalgleish". leave.eu. Archived from the original on 2016-06-14.
  13. 1 2 Cressey, Daniel (2016). "Academics across Europe join 'Brexit' debate". Nature. 530 (7588): 15–15. doi:10.1038/530015a.
  14. ↑ Dalgleish, Angus G.; Beverley, Peter C. L.; Clapham, Paul R.; Crawford, Dorothy H.; Greaves, Melvyn F.; Weiss, Robin A. (1984). "The CD4 (T4) antigen is an essential component of the receptor for the AIDS retrovirus". Nature. 312 (5996): 763–767. doi:10.1038/312763a0. PMID 6096719.
  15. ↑ Wilks, David; Dalgleish, Angus (1992). Molecular and Cell Biology of Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Springer. p. 283. ISBN 978-0-412-36510-2.
  16. ↑ "Biography". Hasumi International Research Foundation. Archived from the original on 21 November 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-10.
  17. ↑ Berridge, Virginia (1996). AIDS in the UK. Oxford University Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-19-820473-2.
  18. ↑ Angus Dalgleish's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier. (subscription required)
  19. ↑ "Corporate Fact Sheet" (PDF). Onyvax Ltd. Retrieved 2008-10-10.
  20. ↑ Murphy-Pyle, Mike (4 March 2014). "Cancer expert Professor Angus Dalgleish to stand for UKIP in Sutton and Cheam". Sutton Guardian. Retrieved 2015-04-29.
  21. ↑ "UK Polling Report". ukpollingreport.co.uk.
  22. ↑ Cressey, Daniel (2016). "Scientists say 'no' to UK exit from Europe in Nature poll". Nature. 531 (7596): 559–559. doi:10.1038/531559a.
  23. ↑ Anon (2016). "Is this doctor (and UKIP candidate) right that EU migrants will destroy the NHS?". London: The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2016-04-22.
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