Keynote Speaker

SIAMON GORDON, M.D., Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Cellular Pathology, University of Oxford
Visiting Scientist at the NIH

"The Versatile Macrophage: Receptors and Inflammation"

When you think of macrophages you have to include the work of Siamon Gordon. His landmark studies in this field have set the groundwork for much of what we know about how these cells function, interact with other cells of the immune system, and the roles macrophage play in the pathogenesis of disease.

In 2007 he was named Royal Society Fellow for Oxford University:

“Professor Siamon Gordon is distinguished for discovering new macrophage-restricted plasma membrane antigens and receptors and demonstrating their functions in differentiation, adhesion, phagocytosis, immune activation and secretion. These surface molecules are important in innate immunity to microbial and fungal infection, in tissue homeostasis and in pathogenesis of a range of inflammatory and metabolic diseases.”

He is an Emeritus Fellow of Exeter College.

Alternative activation of macrophages: an immunologic functional perspective. Martinez, F.O., Helming, L., and S. Gordon. Annu. Rev. Immunol. 2009. 27:451-483.

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