George & Jeremy
The George Gao/Sir Jeremy relationship runs deep. The world’s two most influential Covid narrators are old friends. 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.
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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.
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Jeremy Farrar |
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opening-up 1978-89 |
1979-1983: Shanxi Agricultural University, China B.Sc |
1978-1980: Churcher’s College A-levels, lager lout |
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1983-1986: Beijing Agricultural University, China MSc |
1980-1986: University College London, BSc, BMed |
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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?) |
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1991-94: Oxford, DPhil, Molecular Virology 1995-1998: Wellcome Trust/MRC Postdoctoral Research Assistant (RS1A), Nuffield Dept. of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford University (worked under McMichael) Research Assistant Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford |
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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 |
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1999-2001: Wellcome Trust (UK) International Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School |
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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 |
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Ebola (Nov-Dec 2013 outbreak - first recorded 2014-2016) |
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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* |
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Published over 500 peer-reviewed research papers * |