Sir John Gerald Patrick Sissons (28 June 1945 – 25 September 2016) was an English physician, specialising in nephrology and virology, focusing on cytomegalovirus.
Patrick Sissons was born in Hessle, East Riding of Yorkshire and attended Ilkley and Felsted School.
[2] Sissons won an NIH Fogarty Fellowship and moved to the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego for 3 years, where he worked under Michael Oldstone.
[3] He returned to London and continued at Hammersmith Hospital, working with Keith Peters (physician) on the virology research side and Jonathan Cohen, establishing a clinical infectious diseases service.
He began working on cytomegalovirus during the late 1970s and 1980s with John Sinclair focusing on virus latency and reactivation in humans, which had been done in animal models only.