Peter Boyle#

Biography#

Peter Boyle’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. From 1991-2004 he was Director of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Institute of Oncology in Milan, Italy.

Professor Boyle is Director of the University of Strathclyde Institute of Global Public Health at iPRI, which is situated in Lyon and Glasgow. He is Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Strathclyde and currently holds Honorary Professorships at Oxford University, Glasgow University, Yale University and Dundee University. He is founder and President of the “World Prevention Alliance”, a non-governmental organisation committed to prevention research and actions in lower income countries.

Peter Boyle’s research interests lie in disease prevention and translational research in its broadest sense, from translating cutting-edge scientific discovery into new approaches to treatment to translating information about risk factors into changes in population behaviour. 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 a Member of the European Cancer Advisory Board and worked as scientific advisor to the European Commission on the European Tobacco Contents Directive which was voted into law in 2002. He was also responsible for the revisions of the European Code Against Cancer.

Peter Boyle has been awarded the Knight's Cross of Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland; Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; Honorary Membership in the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO), the Hungarian Oncological Association and the Argentine Medical Association; Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (Glasgow); Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh); Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom); Membership of the European Cancer Academy; and Honorary Membership of the Hungarian Academy of Science. He has been awarded honorary degrees by the Universities of Aberdeen (DSc) and Dundee (LlD).