Jeremy Farrar

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Jeremy Farrar
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Jeremy Farrar in 2009, portrait via wellcomeimges.org at the Wellcome Trust
Born Jeremy James Farrar
(1961-09-01) 1 September 1961 (age 63)[1]
Singapore
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Thesis Analysis of combinatorial immunoglobin libraries from a myasthenia gravis patient (1997)
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  • Jane Chun[7]
  • Abhilasha Karkey[8]
  • Vianney Tricou[9]
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Jeremy James Farrar (born 1961)[1] OBE, FRCP, FRS, FMedSci, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , [12] was a Professor of Tropical medicine at the University of Oxford. In 2013, he was appointed director of the Wellcome Trust, one of world’s largest and wealthiest research charities.[5][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][1]

Education

Farrar was educated at University College London Medical School,[10] from where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Immunology in 1983 and a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1986.[6] Farrar completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Oxford in 1998 on myasthenia gravis.[22]

Career

From 1996 until 2013, Farrar was Director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam.[3][23][24][25][26] Farrar was Professor of Tropical Medicine and Global Health at the University of Oxford from 2000 until 2013.[1] In 2013, Farrar was appointed Director of the Wellcome Trust.[1]

Research

Farrar's research interests are in infectious diseases[10] such as Tuberculosis,[27] Dengue,[28][29][30][31] Typhoid fever, Malaria, and Influenza H5N1.[2][32][33][34][35]

Awards and honours

Farrar is a member of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) and the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) and an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE). His citation on election to the Academy of Medical Sciences reads: <templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />

Jeremy Farrar is director of the Wellcome Trust-funded Oxford University Clinical Research Unit. Over the past ten years he has created a remarkable research institute in which his own research productivity has been phenomenal and an impressive training program has been developed. Under his direction the research programme has conducted seminal work on malaria, dengue, typhoid, tetanus, pyogenic and tuberculous meningitis and has become the leading centre for clinical research on avian influenza. These Pivotal clinical and virological studies have identified the dual importance of viral burden and the cytokine response to the lethal pathogenesis of avian influenza, and have described the rapid emergence of resistance to neuraminidase inhibitors. The unit has also conducted important research into Dengue shock syndrome, conducting the only large prospective randomised trials of fluid replacement and has provided an evidence-base for revision of the World Health Organisation classification. His commitment to fighting emerging infectious diseases at their source in developing countries is commendable and his contribution to capacity building in Vietnam and other countries is vital for the future of health care in these regions and serves as a model for others to follow.[14]

Farrar was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015.[12]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (subscription required)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.oucru.org
  4. ↑ The Farrar Foundation, farrarfoundation.org
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Jeremy Farrar, BSc MBBS FRCP DPhil, antimicrobe.org
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  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Jeremy Farrar Interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili on The Life Scientific, 2014-07-14
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  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Jeremy Farrar - Epidemiologist, BBC World Service
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  17. ↑ Jeremy Farrar's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  18. ↑ A very Wellcome appointment: Professor Jeremy Farrar, who takes over as director of the Wellcome Trust in October 2013, The Guaridan, 2013-04-25
  19. ↑ Jeremy Farrar on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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  24. ↑ Jeremy Farrar on Connecting your research with society on YouTube
  25. ↑ Exchanges at the Frontier: Jeremy Farrar on YouTube
  26. ↑ Jeremy Farrar seeks innovative backgrounds to help fight infectious diseases, Wired UK on YouTube
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  34. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
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