John Grant Gorman, (born c. 1931)[1] is an Australian physician and medical researcher. In 1980, Gorman shared the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for pioneering work on the rhesus blood group system, the role of rhesus D antibodies in the causation of Rh disease and the apparently paradoxical prevention of Rh disease using the Rh antibodies themselves, in the form of Rho(D) immune globulin, as treatment.[2] [3]
Since its discovery, Gorman's treatment is estimated to have saved millions of lives.[1]
Gorman was appointed an Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) on 19 July 2024 For "eminent service to medicine in co-discovering and pioneering a treatment for Rhesus disease for worldwide benefit to humanity."[4]