Tony Davies obituary

My colleague and friend Tony Davies, who has died aged 90, was an eminent British scientist who conducted research that led to the development of modern immunology.

Tony's work was critical in elucidating the function of the thymus gland and the discovery of T-cells - a type of white blood cell that is central to our immune response. It could be argued that many modern therapies, from cancer immunotherapy to Covid vaccines, would not have been possible without the work of Tony and other immunologists of the 1960s and 70s.