Jeremy Farrar is an epidemiologist at Wellcome Trust.[1]He is a member of the Royal Society.[1]He was inducted into the Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.[1]Farrar is a Fellow of the Royal Society and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.[1]
Dr Farrar is a clinician scientist who before joining the Wellcome Trust was, for eighteen years, Director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam, where his research interests were in infectious diseases and global health with a focus on emerging infections.[2]Sulston founded the Sanger center, located near Cambridge, in 1992, which he directed until 2000.[3]He has mentored dozens of students and fellows and has published more than 600 scientific papers.[4]
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Dr. Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust biomedical research foundation, is unsure whether the mutation makes the virus more transmissible or causes severe infection. "The pressure on the virus to evolve is increased by the fact that so many millions of people have now been infected," he told the Post. Mutations are common and there's not yet cause for concern, though scientists will continue to keep a close eye on the new variant which has shown 17 mutations. Currently, there's no indication that the variant will pose problems to vaccine efficacy, experts told the Post.[63]
12/16/2020
Despite now being a scientific advisor to the U.K. government on the coronavirus, Professor Jeremy Farrar pretty much flunked his university entrance exams. Farrar retook the exams and then a year later, upon the advice of his sister, he knocked on the doors of universities around London to try to get a place at a medical school. All but one turned him down — University College London. But Farrar said he was still having recurring nightmares about retaking his exams, up until a couple of years ago.[47]
12/07/2020
Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar – a member of the UK Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for EmergenciesSir Jeremy said he would be ‘thrilled’ if people are inspired by his story of things turning out well after poor exam results. ‘I didn’t think within a year we would have the sorts of results we’ve seen in the last week or two with the vaccine and the drugs, therapeutics and the diagnostics.[46]
12/05/2020