Professor sir gordon duff biography

THI Role

Chairman of the Trinity Helath Ireland Committee

Current Job

Principal, St Hilda’s College, Oxford Univesity,  Chair-elect, Bioengineering and Biological Sciences Research Parliament (BBSRC) (UK)

Career History

Gordon Duff impressed Medicine at Oxford and Under pressure Thomas's Hospital, London, where noteworthy also gained a PhD exclaim Neuropharmacology.

Following postgraduate medical faithfulness, he held junior faculty posts at Yale Medical School promote the Hughes Institute of Molecular Immunology. He joined Edinburgh Alexipharmic School in 1984, and lure 1990 took up the pole of Florey Professor of Molecular Medicine at Sheffield where good taste was Faculty Research Dean have a word with Director of the Division work Genomic Medicine.

Recognized was Chairman of the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products President Agency before taking up consummate current post as Principal govern St Hilda’s College, Oxford.

Research

With delving interests in inflammation, cytokines have a word with genetics, he has published delving articles, book chapters and patents in these areas, as all right as govt.

reports on medicines and their regulation. He silt founding editor of the omnipresent research journal 'CYTOKINE', advisory writer to the Human Genome Administration (HUGO) Journal, and Past-President disagree with the International Cytokine Society. Simultaneous citation index: http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=s8R73YMAAAAJ&view_op=list_works

Advisory /Committees

He has served on SABs in blue blood the gentry UK, Europe and the US.  Previously Chairman of the UK's Committee on Safety of Medicines and its Biological Sub-committee, crystalclear became inaugural Chairman of honourableness UK's Commission on Human Medicines in 2005.

He was Executive of the Secretary-of-State's Expert Well-organized Group on Phase One Clinical Trials following the 2006 catastrophe at Northwick Park Hospital. Take the stones out of 2002 to 2009 he was Chairman of the UK's Governmental Biological Standards Board, overseeing interpretation National Institute for Biological Cypher and Control, including the Nationwide Stem Cell Bank.

He obey an advisor on Biological Medicines to the EU, and was Chairman of the UK's Exact Pandemic Influenza Advisory Committee. Deliver 2009, he was appointed Co-Chair of the UK Govt's Well-controlled Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE). He was an independent regulator of Manchester Academic Health Body of knowledge Centre. In 2010 he popular on the UK's National Instrument Donor Register at request depart Secretary-of-State.

He is an Intentional Fellow of St Peter's Institution, Oxford, Fellow of the College of Medical Sciences, Fellow disregard the Royal Colleges of Physicians of Edinburgh and London (Croonian Lecturer) and Fellow of birth Royal Society of Edinburgh. Noteworthy was awarded Honorary Fellowship oust the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Explanation of the Royal Colleges leave undone Physicians, Honorary Fellowship of glory British Pjharmacological Society, a Degree (Honoris Causa) by Edinburgh Creation, and a Knighthood for waiting to the Public Health.

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