Daniel M. Davis

Daniel M. Davis is Professor of Immunology at the University of Manchester and author of three books. The Beautiful Cure was shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society Science Book Prize and was a book of the year in The Times, Telegraph and New Scientist. The Compatibility Gene was longlisted for the 2014 Royal Society Science Book Prize and shortlisted for the Society of Biology Book Prize. His most recent book, The Secret Body, published in 2021, has been praised by Bill Bryson, Alice Roberts and Brian Cox, among others. He has also written for The Times, Guardian, New Scientist and Scientific American. He regularly speaks at literary and science festivals, and has appeared on several radio and TV programs. His research, using super-resolution microscopy to study the immune system, was listed in Discover magazine as one of the top 100 breakthroughs of the year. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and has published over 140 academic papers.