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sam.palmer@immonc.ox.ac.uk

Sam Palmer

PhD

Postdoctoral Scientist

Research

I am a mathematical biologist working on thymus biology, immunology, cancer and ageing. My background is in string theory and now I use mathematical models and bioinformatics to analyse experimental data. For example, several diseases, including cancers such as CML and brain cancer, and infectious diseases such as MRSA and COVID-19, have risk of hospitalisation that rises with age inversely proportional to thymus volume (risk doubles every 16 years while thymus volume halves every 16 years).