Honorary Senior Lecturer in Virology and President of Research-Aid Networks, University of Kent
Dr Jeremy Rossman is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Virology in the School of Biosciences and the President and Founder of the NGO, Research-Aid Networks (www.researchaidnetworks.org). Dr Rossman conducts collaborative interdisciplinary research on the molecular biology of Ebola and influenza viruses, international epidemic responses, evidence-based humanitarian aid and science education.
He received a PhD in Emerging Infectious Diseases from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (Bethesda, Maryland, USA) for his studies on T lymphocyte signal transduction (2006). Following his PhD, he conducted postdoctoral research with Prof Robert Lamb at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA) where he investigated the mechanisms of influenza virus budding (2006-2011).
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