Helgi Valdimarsson

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is a patronymic, not a family name; this person is properly referred to by the given name Helgi.

Helgi Valdimarsson (born 1936), is a professor of Immunology at the University of Iceland.[1] He established the first Immunology laboratory of Iceland in 1983. He was a senior lecturer at St Mary's Hospital Medical school, London, England from 1975–1981 and a visiting Professor at St. Mary’s from 1981–1990. He has published over 180 articles in international peer reviewed journals, and for his work on psoriasis he has received several research grants including European Commission Grant (1998–2002) and a Fogarty Scholarship in 2003.

He is the father-in-law of English humorist Tim Moore, and the father of Agnar Helgason and Asgeir R. Helgason.

References

  1. ↑ "Helgi Valdimarsson, prófessor við læknadeild" (in Icelandic). Retrieved 24 January 2013.
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