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Bruce Ponder Scientist

Professor Sir Bruce Anthony John Ponder is Professor of Oncology at the University of Cambridge and former director of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute. Ponder's team helped to identify the breast cancer susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2.He carried out his PhD studies with Lionel Crawford in London working on chromatin organisation and DNA sequence specificity using polyoma virus.In 1997 he delivered the Croonian Lecture to the Royal College of Physicians on the subject of the RET gene. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001.