Daniel M Davis, PhD, is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and is also The Director of Research in the Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research - a research institute funded by the University of Manchester, AstraZeneca and GSK.

Prior to this, he was a Professor of Molecular Immunology at Imperial College London, UK and Head of the Immunology and Infection Section at the South Kensington Campus. He previously completed an Irvington Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship with Professor Jack Strominger at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, after earning a PhD in Physics at Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK, and a BSc in Physics at the University of Manchester, UK.

Professor Davis pioneered the use of novel imaging techniques to help visualize key molecular components of the immune response. His work helped establish new concept of how immune cells communicate with each other and how they recognize disease. In 1999, he published the first images showing protein reorganisation at the interface between human Natural Killer (NK) cells and tumour cells.