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Andrew Rambaut

 

 

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Man of Mystery!  All the others have put themselves out there to pump the paper - but Rambaut stayed in the shadows. That's intriguing.  As a next generation computer-whiz, he has gone to some length to conceal his image. Turns out he's the most handsome of the lot.

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Whereas Lipkin was bursting at the seams with on the record info, Rambaut likes his privacy. That's fine, but as a key ingredient of the Prox-O-5, your famous for all time whether you like it or not.

Still, you can judge a man by the company he keeps - Oxford - specifically Nuffield Department. DPhil from Oxford in 1997 places him there at the same time as brothers-in-arms Farrar, Gao, Holmes, Worobey, Horby, et al.  The Oxford-Edinburgh axis is at the centre of the Covid atrocity. Evolutionary biologist specializing in emerging human viral pathogens.  Funny how the more human viral pathogenicists emerged as a fund-attracting force - the more emerging human viral pathogens emerged.

Rambaut is genomic surveillance enthusiast - his interests included population engineering, Feb 1 Teleconferencer, first person Holmes called with the sequence - published on his website, SAGE member (with Jeremy Farrar), futurist (as is Farrar), funded by Wellcome, the blank photo above is from a conference titled: Next-generation molecular and evolutionary epidemiology of infectious disease: challenges and opportunities, co-author with Andersen & Holmes on the dodgy Ebola origins paper.