Professor Gordon Dougan

 

Professor Dougan is a Principal Research Scientist and a member of the Board of Management at The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK. He was previously a Director of the Centre for Molecular Microbiology and Infection at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London and a Professor of Physiological Biochemistry. He is currently a Honorary Professor at Cambridge and Nottingham Universities and a Visiting Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a Trustee of the International Vaccine Institute in Korea.

Throughout his career he has served as a Professor, lecturer, referee, advisor, consultant and Board Member for numerous respected institutions, universities, boards, committees, and organisations as well as the MOD in Britain. He worked for over ten years in industry, developing vaccines and novel drugs at an internationally renowned multinational company. He was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2002.