George & Jeremy

The George Gao/Sir Jeremy relationship runs deep. The world’s two most influential Covid narrators are old friend s . Naturally, Farrar was communicating with Gao 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 
 
 
 Jeremy Farrar 
 
 
 Deng Xiao-ping 
 opening-up 
 1978-89 
 
 
 1979-1983: Shanxi Agricultural University, China B.Sc 
 
 
 1978-1980: Churcher’s College A-levels, lager lout 
 
 
 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 - 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 (2003-2011) 
 
 
 1998-1999: Research Associate (Band 3), MRC Human Immunology Unit, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford (under McMichael ) 
 
 
 1996-2013: Director Clinical Research Unit Ho Chi Minh City - Oxford/Wellcome Trust/ NIH funded 
 ( Eddie : 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 
   
 ( Eddie: 2014-2020 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 - Lecturer, Assoc Prof Nuffield Dept of Medicine, Oxford) 
 2013-now: Strategic Adviser, Global Alliance for Genomics & Health (with Francis Collins) 
 2013-now: CAMS- Oxford International Centre for Translational Immunology 
 2015-now: Co-founder CEPI Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness ( Global Vaccine-Development Fund ) 
 2017-: Scientific Advisory Group of WHO R&D Blueprint (epidemic preparedness) 
 Adviser, WHO Collaborating Centre for Modelling, Evolution and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases (with Fouchier & Kawaoka) 
 2019-now: Chair Genome Research Limited board (includes Paul Schreier) 
 2019-now: Chair of Heads of International Research Organizations  
 Published over 500 peer-reviewed research papers* 
 
 Published over 500 peer-reviewed research papers *