New Honorary Fellows
19 February 2007
The Governing Body of St Peter's College is pleased to announce the election of Sir Gordon Duff and the Rt Revd John Pritchard to Honorary Fellowships. Both are Old Members of the College.
Professor Sir Gordon Duff MA, BM BCh, PhD, FRCP, FRCPE, FMedSci, was a Scholar in Medicine at St Peter’s (1966-69) and underwent clinical training at St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School in London, where he also gained a PhD in Neuropharmacology. Following postgraduate medical training in the UK and junior faculty appointments at Yale University School of Medicine, and the Howard Hughes Immunology Institute at Yale, he joined the Edinburgh School of Medicine in 1984 before taking up his present post, Florey Professor of Molecular Medicine, at Sheffield in 1990.
He has been Research Dean of the Medical Faculty, and Director of the Division of Genomic Medicine in the University of Sheffield. His research interests are in inflammation and genetics of the inflammatory response. He has published over 300 research articles, 30 patents and numerous editorials, reports and book chapters. He is a founding editor of the international research journal ‘CYTOKINE’ and Past-President of the International Cytokine Society.
He is currently Chairman of the UK’s National Biological Standards Board (which oversees the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control), an advisor on Genetics Research to the Department of Health, and on Biological Medicines to the EU Medicines Regulator.
Previously Chairman of the UK’s Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM), he was appointed inaugural Chairman of the UK’s Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) in 2005. In 2006 he was appointed Chairman of the Secretary of State’s Expert Scientific Group on Phase One Clinical Trials.
His interests include mountain sports, botany, football, and English furniture of the 17th &18th Centuries.
He received a Knighthood in the 2007 New Year Honours.
The Right Reverend John Pritchard, MA, DipTh, MLitt, studied for his first degree at St Peter's College, Oxford and trained for the ordained ministry at Ridley Hall, Cambridge. Since 2002 he has been Suffragan Bishop of Jarrow. He will succeed the Rt Revd Richard Harries as Bishop of Oxford later this year.
The Bishop's publications include Practical Theology in Action, 1996; The Intercessions Handbook, 1997; Beginning Again, 2000; Living the Gospel Stories Today, 2001; How to Pray, 2002; Living Easter through the Year, 2005; and How to Explain your Faith, 2006.