Neil Gow (scientist)

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Neil Gow
FRSE FMedSci FRSB
Gow in 2016
Born (1957-11-30) 30 November 1957 (age 66)
Tezpur, India
Education
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Scientific career
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ThesisGrowth, physiology and ultrastructure of the pathogenic fungus Candida albicans (1982)
Doctoral advisorGraham W. Gooday
Websitewww.abdn.ac.uk/ims/profiles/n.gow

Neil Andrew Robert Gow

Vice Chancellor at the University of Exeter.[6] Previously he served at the University of Aberdeen for 38 years[2][1] and retains an honorary chair there.[7]

Education

Gow was educated Madras College and Perth Academy.[2] He studied at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Aberdeen where he was awarded a PhD in 1982 for research on the pathogenic fungus Candida albicans supervised by Graham Gooday.[8][9]

Research and career

Gow's research career has been in the field of

medical mycology. He is known for his discoveries in fungal biology and genetics, morphogenesis and pathogenesis. His studies of how the cell walls of fungal pathogenic species is assembled, responds to antifungal antibiotics and is recognised by the human immune system directly impacts on the design and use of antifungal drugs, diagnostics and immunotherapies for fungal diseases.[10][11][12][13]

After his PhD, Gow worked in Denver before returning to Aberdeen, where he has developed a team that has recently[when?] become a Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Medical Mycology and is one of the largest centres in this field worldwide. He has helped co-ordinate UK training and research in medical mycology and has acted as President of the British Mycological Society, the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM) and the Microbiology Society.[3]

Awards and honours

Gow has received several awards for his research, he was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016[3] and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB).[2][when?
]

References

  1. ^ a b Neil Gow publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^
    doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U286513. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  3. ^ a b c Anon (2016). "Professor Neil Gow FMedSci FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 29 April 2016. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^ a b "Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows as of 2016-05-13" (PDF). Edinburgh: Royal Society of Edinburgh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 March 2016.
  5. ^ Neil A. R. Gow at Library of Congress
  6. ^ "University of Exeter". Exeter.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  7. ^ "Professor Neil Gow: Chair in Microbiology, University of Aberdeen". Aberdeen: abdn.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 17 May 2016.
  8. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.354942
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  9. PMID 6757383
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  10. PMID 12823944
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  11. S2CID 1477651
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  12. PMID 9043107
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  13. PMID 19465905
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