Clinician to head Wellcome Trust

摘要

From his base in Vietnam, Jeremy Farrar has spent the past 17 years on the front line of the battle with infectious diseases, from dengue and typhoid to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and now H7N9 avian influenza. The British clinician has led the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Ho Chi Minh City as it has grown from a dozen people to around 200 researchers supporting public-health efforts in Vietnam, Nepal and Indonesia. Now, Farrar is stepping up to lead the UK institution that paid for much of his work: the Wellcome Trust, one of the world's largest charities funding biomedical research.