Jan Bondeson

Jan Bondeson is a Swedish-British physician and author who trained in medicine at Lund University in Sweden, qualifying in 1988, and who works as a senior lecturer and consultant rheumatologist at the Cardiff University School of Medicine. He specialized in rheumatology and internal medicine, defended his doctoral thesis in 1996 and continued his research at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology in London, where he became a pioneer in using adenoviral gene transfer to study intracellular signalling and the regulation of cytokines and matrix metalloproteinases. His later laboratory work concentrated on the role of synovial macrophages in osteoarthritis. Alongside this career he has written popular histories of medical curiosities, premature burial and disputed identities, as well as studies of unsolved Victorian murders and of famous dogs.