Charles Bangham MRCP, PhD, FRC Path

Professor Charles Bangham is Chair of Immunology in the Department of Infectious Diseases, within the Faculty of Medicine. Charles qualified in medical sciences at Cambridge University and in clinical medicine at Oxford University and worked as a hospital physician for three years before carrying out a PhD on viral immunology at the MRC National Institute for Medical Research and Oxford University.

In 1995 he was appointed as the Chair of Immunology at Imperial College London and in 2013 Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases. His research has focused on the human T-cell leukemia virus, HTLV-1. His group discovered the virological synapse - the mechanism by which viruses including HTLV-1, HIV, and murine leukemia virus are transmitted from cell to cell. Charles is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.