Siamon Gordon

Siamon Gordon
FRS FMedSci
Siamon Gordon FRSFMedSci
Born	29 April 1938(age 86)
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

Education

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]

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.

Macrophage Biology and Activation, Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology(ed, 1992)
Siamon Gordon (ed)The Legacy of cell fusionOxford University Press, 1994,ISBN 978-0-19-854772-3
Advances in Cell and Molecular Biology of Membranes and Organelles(ed, 1999)
Siamon Gordon, ed (1999).Phagocytosis: the host5.JAI Press,ISBN 978-1-55938-999-0
Siamon Gordon, ed. (2000).Phagocytosis: microbial invasion.Vol. 6. Elsevier.ISBN 978-0-7623-0610-7.
Siamon Gordon, ed. (2003).The Macrophage as Therapeutic Target.Springer.ISBN 978-3-540-44250-9.
Stefan H. E. Kaufmann; Ruslan Medzhitov; Siamon Gordon, eds. (2004).The innate immune response to infection.ASM Press.ISBN 978-1-55581-291-1.

v t e Fellowsof theRoyal Societyelectedin 2007
Fellows	Brad Amos Peter Barnes Gillian Bates Samuel Berkovic Michael Bickle Jeremy Bloxham David Boger Peter Bruce Michael Cates Geoffrey Cloke Richard Cogdell Stewart Cole George Coupland George F. R. Ellis Barry Everitt Andre Geim Siamon Gordon Rosemary Grant Grahame Hardie Bill Harris Nicholas Higham Anthony A. Hyman Anthony Kinloch Richard Leakey Malcolm Levitt Ottoline Leyser Paul Linden Peter Littlewood Ravinder N. Maini Robert Mair, Baron Mair Michael Malim Andrew McMahon Richard Moxon John A. Peacock Edward Arend Perkins Stephen Pope Daniela Rhodes Morgan Sheng David C. Sherrington Terence Tao Veronica van Heyningen David Lee Wark Trevor Wooley Andrew Zisserman
Foreign	Wallace Broecker James Cronin Stanley Falkow Tom Fenchel Jeremiah P. Ostriker Michael O. Rabin Gerald M. Rubin Peter Wolynes
Honorary	Onora O'Neill

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