Donald Palmer (Dr)

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Associate Professor of Immunology in Comparative Biomedical Sciences. His main research interests are immunosenescence, particularly with regards to age-associated thymic involution. He is also interested in the use of antibody phage display technology to identify novel markers on stem cells and cancer cells.

1962

London

Jamaican

He is currently a member of the British Society for Immunology (BSI), was Secretary of the London Immunology Group (a Regional Group of the BSI; 2002-2007) and previously a board member of the BSI council. He is currently on the Editorial Advisory Board for Immunology News. He is also a member of the British Society for Research on Ageing.

Donald is an Associate Professor of Immunology. He did his undergraduate studies (Medical Sciences) at Bradford University, his postgraduate studies (MSc in Immunology) at King’s College London and obtained his PhD which involved investigating the genetic regulation of Beta-2-microglobulin in the Division of Transplantation Biology, MRC Clinical Science Centre, Northwick Park Hospital

He is Currently First Year Leader for BSc/MSci Biological Sciences and Bioveterinary Sciences Programmes, Deputy Senior Tutor (Camden Campus) and Deputy Strand Leader for Lymphoreticular & Haemopoietic’ Strand (2nd Yr BVetMed). He teaches Immunology and Cellular Biology on these programmes.
Donald teaches on the MSc in Immunology at Imperial College, BSc in Biological Sciences at UEL, Pathology Module in the Natural Science Tripos (Year 3) at University of Cambridge and the Infection & Immunity option in the third year undergraduate medical course at Oxford University.
He is a Registered Practitioner of The Higher Education Academy, having successfully completed a Postgraduate College Certificate in Academic Practice at King’s College London, and is currently the Higher Education Academy Biosciences Representative for the RVC.
Donald was previously External Examiner for BSc Biological Sciences at University of Bedfordshire (2012-2017) and currently an External Examiner for BSc Biomedical Science (Y1 and Y2) at St George’s University of London (2016-2020) and Part IB Pathology course for Y2 undergraduate students at Cambridge University (2019-2021).

“If there is a change, there must be something that changes yet does not change”
Dr. Donald Palmer

“Black History Month provides an opportunity to recognise and celebrate the important contribution that black people have made to the development and prosperty of the UK”
Dr. Donald Palmer

https://www.bl.uk/voices-of-science/interviewees/donald-palmer#

https://www.rvc.ac.uk/about/our-people/donald-palmer#tab-research

https://ocr.org.uk/blog/six-black-british-pioneers-of-stem/

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