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Luke O’Neill recently published his book, Keep Calm and Trust the Science. 

Luke O’Neill, 57, grew up in Bray, Co Wicklow. He is Professor of Biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin, a noted immunologist and a Fellow of the Royal Society. The biotech firm Inflazome he co-founded was sold last year. He is lead singer of a band called The Metabollix. His fourth book Keep Calm and Trust the Science: An Extraordinary Year in the Life of an Immunologist is published by Gill Books.

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