Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, UK, has announced the appointment of Professor Simon Cherry as the new Editor-in-Chief of the journal Physics in Medicine & Biology (PMB), effective January 1, 2012. He will succeed Professor Steve Webb, who leaves the position having done an impressive job taking the publication forward.
Published by IOP Publishing on behalf of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine, PMB covers the application of practical and theoretical physics to medicine and biology, and is especially concerned with cutting-edge research in the areas of radiotherapy physics and medical imaging.
Professor Cherry, Director of the Center for Molecular and Genomic Imaging at the University of California, Davis, has already made an outstanding contribution to PMB, publishing 40 papers in the journal, averaging over 40 citations per paper, and spending eight years on its Editorial Board.
Outside of publishing, Professor Cherry has been elected fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and has been honoured with an Outstanding Mid-Career Faculty Research award by his university.
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