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Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Centre for Virus Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research

Sarah Palmer is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Virus Research at the Westmead Institute and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney. Prior to taking up this position in early 2013, she was a Senior Researcher at the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Karolinska Institutet, in Stockholm, Sweden, from 2008 to 2012. From 2000 to 2008, she headed the Virology Core Facility of the HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, US National Institutes of Health, where she led efforts to develop and perfect highly sensitive assays such as the single-copy assay and single-cell sequencing assay, which provide new insights into HIV pathogenesis and persistence during long-term suppressive therapy. She has her PhD in Medical Sciences (Virology) from the Karolinksa Institutet, and conducted her post-doctoral studies at the Center for AIDS Research, Stanford University Medical School. Sarah’s work has resulted in over 100 peer-reviewed publications in leading scientific journals, and presentations at international conferences around the world. Her research has also been published in the prominent American journal Foreign Affairs. Born in the United States, she has lived and worked abroad for lengthy periods, including in China, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and Australia.

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    Deputy Director, Centre for Virus Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research