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Paul Kellam (born 1965) is a Professor of Viral Genomics at Imperial College London and vice-president of infectious diseases and vaccines at Kymab Ltd. He is co-author of the Oxford textbook Human Virology.
Kellam attended Oakwood Park Grammar School. He received a Bachelor Science in Microbiology from the University of Reading in 1987 and a PhD in Virology from the University of London in 1994.
As of 2021, Professor Kellam sits on the PHE Serology Working Group as a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies in response to COVID-19. [1]
Kellam is chair of the Microbiology Society Policy Committee. [2]
Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, American Society for Microbiology, July 2015. [3]
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