# George & Jeremy The George Gao/Sir Jeremy relationship runs deep. The world’s two most influential Covid narrators are [*old friend*s](https://www.happyscribe.com/public/desert-island-discs/professor-sir-jeremy-farrar#paragraph_303?utm_source=public_transcript&utm_medium=highlight_copy&utm_campaign=public_promo). Naturally, Farrar was [communicating with Gao](https://www.happyscribe.com/public/desert-island-discs/professor-sir-jeremy-farrar#paragraph_303?utm_source=public_transcript&utm_medium=highlight_copy&utm_campaign=public_promo) in the nascent stages of Covid. Farrar says the first he heard about it was Dec 31, but i don’t believe it. That’s two weeks after Lipkin first heard. Take a glance at the entwined paths as you scroll through to the discussion below. Within Oxford, the Nuffield Department features prominently - that's where the real magic happened. Bear in mind this is **not** a *7-steps to Kevin Bacon* exercise - it’s zero steps to a CCP superstar at the heart of Covid. * * Note: The table is focused on the two king pins, George & Jeremy, but Eddie Everywhere *slips his way* in like a good footballer - can’t keep him out of the game.
**Era** [**George Gao**](http://www.caspmi.cn/gaog/cv4.html) **Jeremy Farrar**
[**Deng Xiao-ping**](http://formosahut.com/forum/index.php?mode=entry&id=2362) ***opening-up*** **1978-89** **1979-1983:** Shanxi Agricultural University, China B.Sc **1978-1980:** Churcher’s College A-levels, [lager lout](http://formosahut.com/forum/index.php?id=3131)
**1983-1986:** Beijing Agricultural University, China MSc **1980-1986:** University College London, BSc, BMed
**1987-1991:** Lecturer (Virology), College of Vet. Med., Beijing Agricultural University **1986(?)-1998:** MD, Edinburgh; Medical training London, Melbourne, San Francisco **Oxford**, Lecturer in neurology, completed Immunology PhD on **myasthenia gravis** - [*really struggled*](https://www.happyscribe.com/public/desert-island-discs/professor-sir-jeremy-farrar#paragraph_1451?utm_source=public_transcript&utm_medium=paragraph&utm_campaign=public_promo) - met future wife, Christiane Dolecek at conf in Greece (1994), who helped (?) (George & Jeremy have crossed paths - have they met already?)
**1991-94:** **Oxford**, DPhil, Molecular Virology **1995-1998:** **Wellcome Trust**/MRC Postdoctoral Research Assistant (RS1A), **Nuffield Dep**t. of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, **Oxford University** (worked under McMichael) Research Assistant Institute of Molecular Medicine, **Oxford**
**Anthrax** 2001-[Iraq War 2](https://www.cfr.org/timeline/iraq-war) (2003-2011) **1998-1999:** Research Associate (Band 3), MRC Human Immunology Unit, Institute of Molecular Medicine, **Oxford** (under [McMichael](https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Gao_George_Fu)) **1996-2013:** Director Clinical Research Unit Ho Chi Minh City - **Oxford/Wellcome Trust/**[**NIH funded**](https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmsctech/713/5113002.htm) ([Eddie](https://www.sydney.edu.au/AcademicProfiles/profile/resource?urlid=edward.holmes&type=cv): 1994-2004: **Wellcome Trust** Fellow in Biodiversity, Oxford) Begins regular Collabs with Andrew McMichael, Oxford Lecturer in Tropical Diseases, **Oxford**
**1999-2001: Wellcome Trust** (UK) International Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School
**SARS** **2001-2004:** Lecturer, **Nuffield** Dept. of Clinical Medicine, **Oxford** **2004-2008:** Director-General, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences **2004-now:** Professor, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences **2006-now:** Professor, University of Science and Technology of China **2008-now:** Director, CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology Vice-President, Beijing Institutes of Life Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
**Ebola** (Nov-Dec 2013 outbreak - first recorded 2014-2016)
**2013-now:** [CAMS-**Oxford** International Centre for Translational Immunology](https://www.camsoxford.ox.ac.uk/cti/principal-investigators) ([Eddie: 2014-2020](https://www.sydney.edu.au/AcademicProfiles/profile/resource?urlid=edward.holmes&type=cv) Guest Professor, Chinese CDC and Prevention, Beijing) **2015-now:** President, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Cunji Medical College **2017-now**: Director-General, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention **2013-now:** Director **Wellcome Trust**; lecturer in Tropical Infectious Diseases, **Oxford** [(Wife Dolecek](https://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/team/christiane-dolecek) - Lecturer, Assoc Prof **Nuffield** Dept of Medicine, **Oxford)** **2013-now:** Strategic Adviser, Global Alliance for Genomics & Health [(with Francis Collins)](https://www.ga4gh.org/about-us/strategic-advisory-board/) **2013-now:** [CAMS-**Oxford** International Centre](http://english.cams.cn/partners/431.html) for Translational Immunology **2015-now:** Co-founder CEPI Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness (**Global Vaccine-Development Fund**) **2017-:** [Scientific Advisory Group](https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/blue-print/sag-members.pdf) of [**WHO** R&D Blueprint](https://profilebooks.com/contributor/jeremy-farrar/) (epidemic preparedness) Adviser, [WHO Collaborating Centre](https://www.whocc.infectiousdisease.cam.ac.uk/directory/def123%40cam.ac.uk) for Modelling, Evolution and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases[ (with Fouchier & Kawaoka)](https://www.whocc.infectiousdisease.cam.ac.uk/directory#10) **2019-now:** Chair Genome Research Limited board [(includes Paul Schreier)](https://www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/appointments-and-changes-genome-research-limited-board/) **2019-now:** [Chair ](https://videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?File=27620&bhcp=1)of *Heads of International Research Organizations * [Published over 500](https://www.google.com/search?q=jeremy+farrar+published+over+500+&client=firefox-b-d&ei=3N5OYePOLdrWrAHCoL_QBQ&oq=jeremy+farrar+published+over+500+&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAw6BwgAEEcQsAM6BwgAELADEEM6CgguEMgDELADEEM6EQguEIAEELEDEMcBEKMCEJMCOgUIABCABDoECC4QQzoICAAQgAQQsQM6CAguELEDEIMBOg4ILhCABBCxAxDHARCjAjoOCC4QgAQQsQMQxwEQ0QM6CAguEJECEJMCOgUILhCRAjoICC4QgAQQsQM6BQguEIAEOgsILhCABBCxAxCDAToFCAAQkQI6CwguEIAEEMcBEK8BOggIABCxAxCRAjoICC4QsQMQkQI6CAguEIAEEJMCOgcIABCABBAKOgYIABAWEB46BQghEKABOgQIIRAVOgcIIRAKEKABOggIIRAWEB0QHkoFCDgSATFKBAhBGABQj68lWMKAJmCVpzdoAnACeAGAAaoHiAHSaZIBDjAuMS4xNC4zLjYuNS40mAEAoAEByAEPwAEB&sclient=gws-wiz&ved=0ahUKEwjjrO_A25nzAhVaKysKHULQD1oQ4dUDCA4) peer-reviewed research papers\*
[Published over 500](https://www.google.com/search?q=george+gao+published+over+500&client=firefox-b-d&ei=a-JOYeetIMK1rQG_8LmYAQ&oq=george+gao+published+over+500&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAxKBAhBGAFQ0_wCWNSlA2DAvQNoAXAAeACAAZcDiAGqL5IBCDItMTYuNi4xmAEAoAEBwAEB&sclient=gws-wiz&ved=0ahUKEwinj5Xz3pnzAhXCWisKHT94DhMQ4dUDCA4) peer-reviewed research papers \*