Gordon Ramage
Professor of Infection Prevention and Control
Department of Nursing and Community Health
Gordon is a Professor of Infection Prevention and Control within the School of Health and Life Sciences at GCU. Gordon graduated from Edinburgh University in 1996 with a BSc (Hons) in Medical Microbiology. He then received a PhD in 1999 from the Queen's University of Belfast for his studies of prosthetic joint infection. He subsequently undertook two postdoctoral research positions in North America over a four-year period from 2000 to 2003 (University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and the University of Calgary) focusing on controlling fungal and bacterial biofilm infections.
In 2004 he returned to the UK and was appointed as a Lecturer in Microbiology at Glasgow Caledonian University prior to taking up the position of Senior Lecturer in Microbiology in 2007 at the University of Glasgow Dental School. Gordon received his Personal Chair in 2012 and was promoted to Professor of Medical Microbiology.
Gordon is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath) and is currently the Chair of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease (ESCMID) Study Group for Biofilms (ESGB), and a Fellow of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (FECMM). He is also an honorary member of the British Society for Medical Mycology (BSMM).
In October 2023 Gordon joined GCU as a Professor of Infection Prevention and Control within ReaCH and as co-lead of the Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention (SHIP) group.
Gordon’s research focuses on biofilm detection and control. He is currently funded through the following UKRI and industry focussed projects:
1) EPSRC – Controlling diabetic foot ulcers
2) Innovate UK – Treatment of bacterial vaginosis with probiotics
3) BBSRC/Haleon – OMICs approaches to biofilm management
4) BBSRC – Understanding polymicrobial biofilms on surfaces