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Julian Gordon
* Consultant Dr. Julian Gordon has enjoyed an extensive career in a variety of well-known institutions. In 1957, he joined the Medical Research Council Biophysics Research Unit at Kings College, London, where as a graduate student he worked on the molecular weight of DNA in the same department as Maurice Wilkins, who received the Nobel prize for is work on the X-ray diffraction structure of DNA. In the early 1960s, Dr. Gordon did postdoctoral work in Copenhagen and Uppsala. The Biochemistry Institute in Uppsala was home to Svedberg and Tiselius, who had established ultracentrifugation and electrophoresis as tools for modern biology. There he did pioneering work on the addition of methyl groups to the structure of RNA. In 1965 he moved to the department of Nobel Prize winner Fritz Lipman at Rockefeller University in New York, where he did ground breaking work on the role of protein factors in protein synthesis. Five years later, the then Swiss Pharmaceutical companies CIBA and Geigy joined forces to create a research establishment, the Friedrich Miescher Institute, in Basel, Switzerland. As group leader, Dr. Gordon directed a scientific team that as a result of their work on structure function-relationships of ribosomal proteins, produced the Western blot, an important method used today in molecular biology, biochemistry and immunogenetics for the detection of proteins. In 1981, Dr. Gordon was invited to join the diagnostics division of Abbott Labs, North Chicago. There he directed a team that was responsible for numerous technological innovations, including the first home pregnancy tests, as well as low cost methods for genetic analysis. Beginning with the Western blot, he started to take an interest in the utility of intellectual property. He thus became involved in the filing and defense of patents, and in technology licensing. Dr. Gordon joined FIND in April, 2007 as a consultant in assessment of medical diagnostic technologies and related IP issues.
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