BioMedES (bio’meed’eez) was established in 1998 by Dr Denys Wheatley after he became Editor-in-Chief of Cell Biology International, the official journal of the International Federation for Cell Biology (IFCB) . Having published widely and been involved in editorial work in the biomedical field for many years, Dr Wheatley was aware that many scientists from non-English speaking countries around the world found it difficult to prepare papers in English to meet the standards required by most of the scientific and medical literature. Given that papers were scientifically sound, drafts from “disadvantaged” authors needed to be improved in order to have a fair chance at peer review.

Dr Wheatley decided to set up BioMedES to meet this demand, providing a service that would take these draft papers and scientific articles and bring them to a standard comparable to those of English speaking authors - editing the grammar, syntax, spelling, idiomatic English and medical or technical jargon. In 2000, the operation became independent from IFCB, and today handles over 400 articles and requests annually.

Today, as well as producing abstracts for submissions and meetings, BioMedES provides a range of creative design services, publishes e-books and journals and runs training courses. These courses are designed to assist those in biomedicine who wish to improve their writing in English and find out more about modern publishing procedures.