Officials
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President: Dr Denys Wheatley, |
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| Vice-President:
Dr Cheng-Wen Wu |
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| Secretary General: Hernandez F Carvalho |
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Treasurer: This post (non-voting on the Executive Committee) is vacant. Contact us to apply. |
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Past President Prof Ivan Cameron |
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Structure of IFCB Executive
2008 -
President, Denys Wheatley (UK)
Professor Denys Wheatley was elected President of the IFCB in October 2008 at its General Assembly in Seoul, after serving over 7 years as the Secretary General. Denys has been Editor-in-Chief of CBI for 11 years. In 1998, the journal was languishing as the official publication of the International Federation of Cell Biology (IFCB), but in the last decade, submissions have risen 6-fold. Denys has since spent his time providing a successful BioMedical Editing Service (BioMedES Ltd; www.biomedes.co.uk) which emerged from the “manuscript presentation service” offered first as a new concept to authors of papers sent to Cell Biology International.
Denys took his first degree in 1961 at King’s College University of London in Cell Physiology and completed his PhD in two years later at the Chester Beatty Research Institute, Institute of Cancer Research in London before leaving to take up a research Fellowship with Alistair Currie (later of apoptosis fame) at Aberdeen University in 1964, which has been his base ever since, although he has spent much time abroad. Well known for his research on the cell cycle in relation to cancer, amino acid metabolism and protein degradation, primary cilia and centrioles, as well as diffusion theory in biology, he retired from his University post in 2005. He continues to work on cancer research as Chief Scientific Officer of BioCancer Treatment International, based in Hong Kong. He is an adjunct professor at the Wayne State Medical School in Detroit MI, USA. Denys has written many books and published nearly 300 papers. In addition to CBI, three other journals are under his editorship (Cancer Cell International; Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling; Oncology News. He is on the board of a number of other journals. In recent years he has been awarded several International prizes, three honorary degrees, and is Full Foreign Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Medical Sciences.
