Jolyon Hendry

Honorary Member 2017

Jolyon Hendry was an ARR Committee member (1980-82), Secretary (1982-86), and Chairman (1990-92). He started his scientific career with a BSc in Physics from St Andrews University in 1966, then an MSc in Radiation Biology at London University with Jack Fowler as project supervisor in 1968, an external London PhD in 1971 based in Manchester with Alma Howard as supervisor, and a DSc from London University in 1991. He was a postdoctoral scientist at the Glasgow Institute of Radiotherapeutics (1971-72) and then at the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, Christie Hospital, Manchester, being Head of Radiobiology from 1976 and later Experimental Radiation Oncology until 2002. He researched and published extensively with Chris Potten, Brian Lord and others on the radiation response of stem cell systems, and later the mathematical modelling of clinical data with Steve Roberts and radiotherapist Nick Slevin. During this period he held/co-held 20 research grants, and he supervised/co-supervised 16 PhD students. He was Associate Editor of the International Journal of Radiation Biology for 5 years and then Chief Editor (1988-95). He co-authored Fractionation in Radiotherapy with Howard Thames in 1987, and edited/co-edited 7 other books. From 2002 he spent 5 years at the IAEA in Vienna first as staff member and then Head of the Applied Radiobiology and Radiotherapy Section in Human Health. After returning to the UK he set up and was first Director in 2009 of the annual MSc course in Radiation Biology at the Gray Institute, Churchill Hospital, Oxford.
As well as his ARR positions, he was Secretary of the BIR Radiobiology Committee (1977-81), Chairman of the LH Gray Memorial Trust (1985-91), Secretary of Committee 1 of the ICRP (2005-12), and a member of: BIR Council (1980-83), MRC Committee on the Effects of Ionizing Radiation (1983-87), Examining Board for the First Examination for the Fellowship (Radiotherapy and Oncology) Royal College of Radiologists (1985-92), Standing panel of experts in Radiation Biology London University (1987-2002), Gray Laboratory CRC Committee (1988-92), COMARE (1989-97), ESTRO Radiobiology Committee (1990-99) and Council (1995-97), CRC Grants Committee (1993-2001), British Oncological Association (1994-98), Scientific Council of the Human Health Protection & Dosimetry Dept IPSN France (1995-98), WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Radiation (2000-04), Royal Society working party on Depleted Uranium (2000-02), Scientific Committee of the International Organisation for Medical Physics (2007-09), Department of Health Advisory Group on Cardiovascular Risks of Ionising Radiation (2008-10) and Human Radiosensitivity (2010-13), and Scientific Advisory Committee of the Euratom FP7 project ‘Risk, Stem cells and tissue kinetics, Ionising Radiation’ (2013-17).

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