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Professor
Sir Gordon Duff
Florey Professor of Molecular Medicine, University of Sheffield
School of Medicine Gordon Duff trained in Medicine at Oxford University
and St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in London, where he also gained a PhD
in neuropharmacology of the fever response. Following postgraduate medical training
in the UK (including Clinical Pharmacology at the Hammersmith Hospital, London),
post-doctoral periods in the Infectious Diseases Section at Yale University School
of Medicine, and the Howard Hughes Institute of Cellular and Molecular Immunology
at Yale, he joined the Medical Faculty of Edinburgh University in 1984 before
taking up his present post, Florey Professor of Molecular Medicine at Sheffield,
in 1990. His research work is in the fields of immunology and genetics,
and he is a founding editor of the international research journal 'CYTOKINE'.
He is past-President of the International Cytokine Society and past-Chairman of
the UK's Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM) and its Subcommittee on Biological
Medicines and Vaccines. Previous posts include Research Dean of the Medical Faculty,
and Director of the Division of Genomic Medicine at Sheffield University. Currently,
he is Chairman of the UK's National Biological Standards Board. In 2005, he was
appointed inaugural Chairman of the UK's Commission on Human Medicines (CHM).
He is an Honorary Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Edinburgh, the Royal College of Physicians and the Academy of Medical
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