Professor sir gordon duff biography of rory

THI Role

Chairman of the Trinity Helath Ireland Committee

Current Job

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

Career History

Gordon Duff studied Medicine at Oxford and St Thomas's Hospital, London, where he also gained a PhD in Neuropharmacology.

Following postgraduate medical training, he held junior faculty posts at Yale Medical School and the Hughes Institute of Molecular Immunology. He joined Edinburgh Medical School in 1984, and in 1990 took up the post of Florey Professor of Molecular Medicine at Sheffield where he was Faculty Research Dean and Director of the Division of Genomic Medicine.

He was Chairman of the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency before taking up his current post as Principal of St Hilda’s College, Oxford.

Research

With research interests in inflammation, cytokines and genetics, he has published research articles, book chapters