Jeremy Farrar

Sir Jeremy Farrar
OBE FRS FRCP FMedSci
Farrar in 2009
Born
Jeremy James Farrar

(1961-09-01) 1 September 1961 (age 63)[6]
Singapore
NationalityBritish
EducationChurcher's College
Alma mater
Spouse
Christiane Dolecek
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(m. 1998)​
AwardsOrder of Ho Chi Minh[1]
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisAnalysis of combinatorial immunoglobin libraries from a myasthenia gravis patient (1997)
Website

Sir Jeremy James Farrar (born 1 September 1961)[6] is a British medical researcher who has served as Chief Scientist at the World Health Organization since 2023.[8] He was previously the director of The Wellcome Trust from 2013 to 2023 and a professor of tropical medicine at the University of Oxford.[6][5][9][10][11][12]

  1. ^ "Jeremy Farrar – Epidemiologist". BBC.
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  3. ^ "Oxford University Clinical Research Unit". oucru.org.
  4. ^ The Farrar Foundation, farrarfoundation.org
  5. ^ a b Farrar, J; Cressey, D (2014). "Straight talk with...Jeremy Farrar". Nature Medicine. 20 (2): 112. doi:10.1038/nm0214-112. PMID 24504397. S2CID 205376332.
  6. ^ a b c Anon (2016). "Farrar, Sir Jeremy (James)". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U275899. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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  8. ^ Anon (2022). "World Health Organization names Sir Jeremy Farrar as Chief Scientist, Dr Amelia Latu Afuhaamango Tuipulotu as Chief Nursing Officer". who.int.
  9. ^ Van Noorden, Richard (2013). "Clinician to head Wellcome Trust: Jeremy Farrar to lead one of world's largest research charities". Nature. 497 (7447): 19. Bibcode:2013Natur.497...19V. doi:10.1038/497019a. PMID 23636375.
  10. ^ Maxmen, A. (2009). "Jeremy Farrar: When disaster strikes". Journal of Experimental Medicine. 206 (1): 4–5. doi:10.1084/jem.2061pi. PMC 2626674. PMID 19153250.
  11. ^ Jeremy Farrar publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  12. ^ A very Wellcome appointment: Professor Jeremy Farrar, who takes over as director of the Wellcome Trust in October 2013, The Guardian, 25 April 2013