Professor Edward Kaminski was born and educated in England. He graduated from the Warsaw Medical Academy, studied for a PhD at London University and was awarded a Wellcome Travelling Fellowship to Leiden University in the Netherlands.
He completed his specialist training in immunology at St George’s Hospital Medical School, London, and after a period as a Consultant at the University of Aberdeen, moved to Derriford Hospital, Plymouth in 1996 to become the first Consultant Immunologist in South-West England.