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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. 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.
Throughout his career Dougan has served as a referee, advisor and consultant for numerous institutions, universities, boards, committees and other organisations. He was a trustee of the International Vaccine Institute in Korea and has worked with other global agencies including the World Health Organization and the Global Alliance for Vaccine and Innovations (now GAVI Alliance).
Dougan was a lecturer in the Moyne Institute in Trinity College, Dublin and then worked for over ten years in industry developing vaccines and novel drugs at the Wellcome Foundation (now GlaxoSmithKline GSK). He has participated in early and late clinical studies on several vaccines and is an expert in vaccinology/pathogenic mechanisms, specialising on the immunology of mucosal vaccines and molecular basis of infection. He has been Chair of the Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics Scientific Advisory Board and has spun out a number of companies. He has published over 400 research papers, edited several books and has sat on the of prestigious journals.
Dougan was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2011. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2002.
Personal life
Dougan has been a lifelong supporter of Scunthorpe United and is an experienced beekeeper.
Categories: Year Of Birth Missing, Living People, People From Scunthorpe, Alumni Of The University Of Sussex, British Microbiologists, Members Of The European Molecular Biology Organization, Fellows Of The Royal Society, Fellows Of Wolfson College, Cambridge, Commanders Of The Order Of The British Empire
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