Background
Gull, Keith was born on May 29, 1948 in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom. Son of David and Doris (Manging) Gull.
Gull, Keith was born on May 29, 1948 in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom. Son of David and Doris (Manging) Gull.
Gull was educated at Eston Grammar School and where he was awarded a first class Bachelor of Science degree in 1969 followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in 1973.
He has been the principal of Street Edmund Hall, Oxford since 1 October 2009, succeeding Michael Mingos. He held a personal chair at Kent when he moved to the University of Manchester where he spent the 1990s involved with the development of the School of Biological Sciences as Head of Biochemistry and Research Dean. He moved to Oxford in 2002.
He was Chairman of the Biochemical Society (1999–2002), and is a trustee of Cancer Research United Kingdom. According to Google Scholar and Scopus his most cited peer-reviewed scientific papers are on Trypanosoma brucei and Trypanosoma cruzi.
More recently, the Gull laboratory has worked on Leishmania.
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Gull was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (European Molecular Biology Organization) in 2010.
Married Dianne Hilary Elgar, August 12, 1972. Children: David Graeme, Hannah Ruth.