Welcome. I'm Dr. Vinay Prasad. I'm a hematologist, oncologist, and I'm associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. In my professional life, I see patients, I teach trainees, and I do research in health care policy. This is plenary session.

Plenary session is a podcast at the intersection of medicine, oncology, and health policy,

and you're listening to Season 3. On this week's episode, this week on Plenary session, I'm joined

by Professor Francois Boulou. Professor Boulogh is the head of UGI at UCL, University College London.

He is a card-carrying geneticist, scientist, pandemic researcher, and one of the most

excellent people on Twitter to follow for SARS-Cove 2.

You won't want to miss this discussion.

And during the discussion, I screw up his title because there's too many UGs and C's and L's.

I can't get it straight.

Sorry about that.

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I'm back here in plenary session, joined via Zoom by Dr. Francois Ballou. Dr. Boulot is a professor at UGL in London.

He is a renowned geneticist and an astute commentator on all things COVID and people on Twitter

will know him well. And it's a real pleasure to get to talk to you. So thank you so much for doing

this. Thank you. That's very kind. I'm very pleased to be here. It's really my honor.

You know, one of the things that gets uh talked a lot about um in

twitter is who is quote unquote an expert and i guess um when it comes to you and anything you say

uh no one can dispute the fact that you've had a long and important career in genomics um and

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