Siamon Gordon

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Siamon Gordon
Born (1938-04-29) 29 April 1938 (age 85)
Alma materUniversity of Cape Town
Rockefeller University
Scientific career
FieldsPathology
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
ThesisNuclear and plasma membrane properties of macrophage heterokaryons and hybrids (1971)
Doctoral studentsJonathan Austyn[1]

Siamon Gordon

Professor Emeritus of Cellular Pathology at the University of Oxford.[3]

Education

He gained his medical degrees (

PhD from Rockefeller 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

He was on the

NIH.[6] He is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the American Asthma Foundation.[7]

Gordon is noted for his work on the phenotypic and functional diversity of

F4/80. Subsequent studies led to the identification of various scavenger receptors and the cloning of the pattern recognition receptor
, Dectin-1.

Publications

References

  1. .
  2. ^ http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/g/3215/Siamon+GORDON.aspx [dead link]
  3. ^ "Siamon Gordon - title page". Archived from the original on 23 April 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
  4. ^ "CIDRI". Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
  5. ^ "Siamon Gordon | Faculty Member | Faculty Opinions".
  6. PMC 2810092
    .
  7. ^ "Scientific Advisory Board « American Asthma Foundation". www.americanasthmafoundation.org. Archived from the original on 13 May 2009.