Emeritus Professor Nigel Dimmock is a non-clinical virologist who has worked with respiratory viruses for his entire career. He initially studied rhinoviruses at the MRC’s Common Cold Research Unit (Salisbury, UK) and witnessed the isolation of the first human coronaviruses. Moving to Australia (ANU, Canberra), he commenced what was to be a life-time study of influenza viruses, working with Rob Webster and Graeme Laver who made the first split influenza vaccine and established the link between migratory birds and influenza viruses. Back in the UK at the University of Warwick he focussed on understanding the process of virus neutralization, mainly with influenza viruses and later with HIV-1. He has published over 100 papers on virus neutralization and related topics in peer-reviewed international journals including the monograph ‘Neutralization of Animal Viruses’ in Current Topics of Microbiology and Immunology. In this review he has turned a critical eye on the COVID-19 pandemic and what should be done to better understand the immune responses to the vaccines and natural infection.
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Emeritus Professor Nigel Dimmock is a non-clinical virologist who has worked with respiratory viruses for his entire career. He initially studied rhinoviruses at the MRC’s Common Cold Research Unit (Salisbury, UK) and witnessed the isolation of the first human coronaviruses. Moving to Australia (ANU, Canberra), he commenced what was to be a life-time study of influenza viruses, working with Rob Webster and Graeme Laver who made the first split influenza vaccine and established the link between migratory birds and influenza viruses. Back in the UK at the University of Warwick he focussed on understanding the process of virus neutralization, mainly with influenza viruses and later with HIV-1. He has published over 100 papers on virus neutralization and related topics in peer-reviewed international journals including the monograph ‘Neutralization of Animal Viruses’ in Current Topics of Microbiology and Immunology. In this review he has turned a critical eye on the COVID-19 pandemic and what should be done to better understand the immune responses to the vaccines and natural infection.
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