Jeffrey Gordon MD

Jeffrey Gordon, MD, received his Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College and his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Chicago. He completed his clinical training in internal medicine and gastroenterology at Washington University School of Medicine and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Biochemistry at NIH’s National Cancer Institute.

Dr. Gordon has spent his entire academic career at WashU Medicine, first as a member of the Departments of Medicine and of Biological Chemistry, then as Head of the Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology. Since 2004, he has served as the founding Director of The Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences & Systems Biology at Washington University, an interdepartmental team of investigators from multiple schools.

Dr. Gordon has had the privilege and pleasure of serving as the research mentor to more than 145 PhD and MD/PhD students and post-doctoral fellows since he established his lab. His memberships include the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Philosophical Society. He is a Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate (Physiology or Medicine; 2015) and holds 25 US patents.