Sir Bruce Anthony John Ponder FMedSci FAACR FRS FRCP was born on 25 April 1944 and is an English geneticist and cancer researcher.
11 Facts About Bruce Ponder
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Bruce Ponder is Emeritus Professor of Oncology at the University of Cambridge and former director of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Cancer Centre.
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Bruce Ponder trained in medicine at St Thomas' Hospital, London, and carried out his PhD studies as an Imperial Cancer Research Fund Clinical Fellow with Lionel Crawford in London working on chromatin organisation and DNA sequence specificity using polyoma virus.
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Bruce Ponder first studied cancer as a breakdown of the normal rules of tissue organisation.
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In 1980 Bruce Ponder set up a Familial Cancer clinic, new in the UK, at the Royal Marsden Hospital, and from this base he founded and led a multidisciplinary 'UK Familial Cancer Study Group' to promote the study of the genetics, epidemiology and clinical management of familial cancers.
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In 1997, with the Professor of Epidemiology, Nicholas Day, Bruce Ponder founded and was co-director of the Strangeways Research Laboratory for Genetic Epidemiology, with a focus on cancer.
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From 2002 Bruce Ponder began with senior colleagues to develop the Cambridge Cancer Centre.
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Bruce Ponder was President of the British Association for Cancer Research and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association for Cancer Research.
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Bruce Ponder was a founding Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences, of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences, and of the Academy of the American Association for Cancer Research.
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Bruce Ponder was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001 and knighted for Services to Medicine in the 2008 New Year Honours list.
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Bruce Ponder is distinguished for his contributions to human cancer genetics and is a leader in the international collaborations which have led to the identification of genes predisposing for breast and ovarian cancer.