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Peter Robert Parham FRS is a British immunologist who works at Stanford University. His research has included investigating the genetic origin of elements of the human immune system, some of which he has traced to Neanderthals.

Early life and education
His undergraduate degree was natural sciences at the University of Cambridge, followed by a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology at Harvard University under Professor Jack Strominger. He worked for a year at Oxford University's Department of Genetics, and at Harvard, before joining Stanford in 1980.

Writer and editor
He wrote the textbook The Immune System.

His 2005 paper "MHC class I molecules and KIRs in human history, health and survival" has been described as "highly cited" and at a "fast moving front" of research in immunology.

He has served on the editorial boards of various journals, including as a subject editor for Open Biology and as Editor-in-Chief for Immunological Reviews.

Honors
He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 2008.