Jeremy Farrar
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Jeremy Farrar in 2009, portrait via wellcomeimges.org at the Wellcome Trust
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| Born | Jeremy James Farrar 1 September 1961 Singapore |
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| Thesis | Analysis of combinatorial immunoglobin libraries from a myasthenia gravis patient (1997) |
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| Influences | Cheryll Tickle |
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Jeremy James Farrar (born 1961)OBE, FRCP, FRS, FMedSci is the director of the Wellcome Trust, one of world’s largest and wealthiest research charities. He was previously a Professor of Tropical medicine at the University of Oxford.
Farrar was educated at University College London Medical School, from where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Immunology in 1983 and a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1986. Farrar completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Oxford in 1998 on myasthenia gravis.
From 1996 until 2013, Farrar was Director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam. Farrar was Professor of Tropical Medicine and Global Health at the University of Oxford from 2000 until 2013. In 2013, Farrar was appointed Director of the Wellcome Trust.
Farrar's research interests are in infectious diseases such as Tuberculosis,Dengue,Typhoid fever, Malaria, and Influenza H5N1.
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:
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