Helgi Valdimarsson (1936–2018) was a professor of immunology at the University of Iceland. 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 to 1981 and a visiting professor at St. Mary's from 1981 to 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.
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List of scientific articles on US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health