Siamon Gordon
Siamon Gordon | |
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Born | 29 April 1938 |
Alma mater | University of Cape Town Rockefeller University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Pathology |
Institutions | University of Oxford |
Thesis | Nuclear and plasma membrane properties of macrophage heterokaryons and hybrids(1971) |
Doctoral students | Jonathan Austyn[1] |
Siamon GordonFRSFMedSci(born 29 April 1938) is a Britishpathologist.[2]He isGlaxo WellcomeProfessor EmeritusofCellular Pathologyat theUniversity of Oxford.[3]
Education
[edit]He gained his medical degrees (M.B.andCh.B.) from theUniversity of Cape Town,South Africa.He earned hisPhDfromRockefeller University,where he taught from 1971 to 1976. The rest of his career, from 1976 to 2008, was at the University of Oxford.[4]
Career and research
[edit]He was on theFaculty of 1000.[5]He was a visiting scientist at theNIH.[6]He is on the Scientific Advisory Board of theAmerican Asthma Foundation.[7]
Gordon is noted for his work on the phenotypic and functional diversity ofmacrophages.He began his studies on macrophages while in the laboratory ofZanvil CohnatRockefeller Universityin 1966. Upon his move to theSir William Dunn School of PathologyatUniversity of Oxfordin 1976 he continued this work and identified the pan-macrophagemarkerF4/80.Subsequent studies led to the identification of various scavenger receptors and thecloningof thepattern recognition receptor,Dectin-1.
Publications
[edit]- Macrophage Biology and Activation, Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology(ed, 1992)
- Siamon Gordon (ed)The Legacy of cell fusionOxford University Press, 1994,ISBN978-0-19-854772-3
- Advances in Cell and Molecular Biology of Membranes and Organelles(ed, 1999)
- Siamon Gordon, ed (1999).Phagocytosis: the host5.JAI Press,ISBN978-1-55938-999-0
- Siamon Gordon, ed. (2000).Phagocytosis: microbial invasion.Vol. 6. Elsevier.ISBN978-0-7623-0610-7.
- Siamon Gordon, ed. (2003).The Macrophage as Therapeutic Target.Springer.ISBN978-3-540-44250-9.
- Stefan H. E. Kaufmann; Ruslan Medzhitov; Siamon Gordon, eds. (2004).The innate immune response to infection.ASM Press.ISBN978-1-55581-291-1.
References
[edit]- ^Austyn, Jonathan M. (1980).Monoclonal antibodies against the murine macrophage.ox.ac.uk(DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.OCLC556713598.EThOSuk.bl.ethos.237663.
- ^http:// debretts /people/biographies/browse/g/3215/Siamon+GORDON.aspx[dead link]
- ^"Siamon Gordon - title page".Archived fromthe originalon 23 April 2012.Retrieved21 December2011.
- ^"CIDRI".Archived fromthe originalon 26 April 2012.Retrieved21 December2011.
- ^"Siamon Gordon | Faculty Member | Faculty Opinions".
- ^Honey, Karen (1 February 2010)."Siamon Gordon on the challenges of retirement".The Journal of Clinical Investigation.120(2): 398–399.doi:10.1172/JCI42070.ISSN0021-9738.PMC2810092.
- ^"Scientific Advisory Board « American Asthma Foundation".americanasthmafoundation.org.Archived fromthe originalon 13 May 2009.