Gordon Dougan | |
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Born | Gordon Dougan |
Education | Scunthorpe Grammar School John Leggott College[2] |
Alma mater | University of Sussex (BSc, PhD)[3] |
Awards | EMBO Member (2011)[1] |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | |
Thesis | An Analysis of the Structure and Function of Plasmid Cole 1 (1977) |
Doctoral advisor | David Sherratt |
Doctoral students | Mark Pallen[citation needed] Kat Holt[citation needed] |
Website | www |
Gordon Dougan is a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cambridge and head of pathogen research and a member of the board of management at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, United Kingdom.[4] He is also a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. During his career, Dougan has pioneered work on enteric diseases and been heavily involved in the movement to improve vaccine usage in developing countries. In this regard he was recently voted as one of the top ten most influential people in the vaccine world by people working in the area.[5]