Silicon Republic January 21, 2025

Dr Connor Bamford says public perceptions about vaccines can be one of the most challenging aspects of his work.

Dr Connor Bamford is a virologist who specialises in RNA viruses that make people sick.

He is a lecturer and research group leader in the School of Biological Sciences and the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen’s University Belfast.

He graduated from Queen’s with a BSc in molecular biology and since then has taken what he describes as “a fairly traditional career route”. He completed a PhD in molecular virology, also at Queen’s, followed by a postdoctoral position at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research. He undertook a Wellcome Trust-sponsored institutional fellowship during the Covid-19 pandemic, before opening...

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