Bruce Ponder, Editor-in-Chief of Breast Cancer Research, receives knighthood


Bruce Ponder, Editor-in-Chief of Breast Cancer Research, has been recognised with a knighthood in the 2008 New Year’s honours list for services to medicine. Sir Bruce is Li Ka Shing Professor of Oncology at Cambridge University and Director of the newly-opened Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, where he continues to carry out research on genetic susceptibility to cancer.

He launched Breast Cancer Research with BioMed Central in July 1999. Breast Cancer Research
is an international, peer-reviewed online journal, publishing original
research, reviews, commentaries and reports. The journal has an Impact Factor
of 4.16.

Congratulations to Sir Bruce from all at BioMed Central.

Frances Mulvany
In-house Editor, Breast Cancer Research

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