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Dr Peter Boyle, BSc PhD DSc(Med) DSc FRSE FFPH FRCPS(Glas) FRCP(Edin) FMedSci
Peter's appointment as President of the International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France follows immediately on his tenure as Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC/WHO) from 2004 to 2008 in Lyon, France. From 1991 - 2004 he had been Director of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Institute of Oncology in Milan, Italy. Prior to this he had had a number of successive appointments with Glasgow University Department of Medicine, the West of Scotland Cancer Surveillance Unit, Harvard School of Public Health and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC/WHO). Professor Boyle is also currently Honorary Professor of Cancer Prevention and Control at Oxford University and Visiting Professor at Glasgow University. Peter Boyle’s research interests lie mainly in disease prevention and translational research in its broadest meaning, covering the spectrum from translating cutting-edge scientific discovery into new approaches to cancer treatment to translating information about cancer risk factors into changes in population behaviour. He has published widely on a number of different types of cancer, notably breast, colorectal, pancreas, prostate and oral cavity cancers, as well as on benign urological conditions. He led the EUROCAN+PLUS project which developed priorities for coordination of cancer research in Europe and was Editor of the World Cancer Report 2008 which highlighted the growing global cancer crisis. Peter Boyle has previously been Director of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Chronic Disease Epidemiology and a Member of the European Cancer Advisory Board. In this latter role he worked as scientific advisor to the European Commission on the European Tobacco Contents Directive which was voted into law in 2003. He was also responsible for the two revisions of the European Code Against Cancer. Peter Boyle has been honoured by the award of the Knight's Cross of Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (for contribution to public health in Poland); by election to Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; by the award of Honorary Membership in the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO), the Hungarian Oncological Association and the Argentine Medical Association; by the award of Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow; by the award of Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; and by election to the Academy of Medical Sciences of the United Kingdom. In 2006, he was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Aberdeen (Scotland, United Kingdom).