Denys Wheatley - Editor-in-Chief

Denys Wheatley has been Editor-in-Chief of CBI for 11 years. In 1998, the journal was languishing as the official publication of the International Federation for Cell Biology (IFCB), but in the last decade, submissions have risen 6-fold. He 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 in Aberdeen University, 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 and has since spent his time running a successful Biomedical Editing Services outfit (BioMedES Ltd; www.biomedes.co.uk). He also 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, and Oncology News); and he is on the board of several other journals. In recent years he has been awarded several International prizes, three honorary degrees, and Full Foreign Membership of the Ukrainian Academy of Medical Sciences. After over 7 years as Secretary General of the IFCB, Professor Wheatley is now its President. His hobbies include music and art. His latest project, to be published in 2010 by Springer, is a book on Art Therapy in Bipolar Disorder. He also plays the piano and ‘cello, the latter in a number of orchestras as well as in the newly formed World Doctors Orchestra.