Lyn R. Griffiths | |
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Alma mater |
University of New South Wales ( BSc(Hons)); University of Sydney ( PhD) |
Known for | Genetics of migraine |
Awards | Fellow,
Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018); Australian of the Year, Queensland Finalist (2005) Member of the Order of Australia (2023) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Human Genetics |
Institutions | Queensland University of Technology |
Website |
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Lyn Robyn Griffiths AM is an Australian academic who serves as Distinguished Professor of molecular genetics at Queensland University of Technology, where she is director of the Centre for Genomics and Personalised Health, the Genomics Research Centre and the BridgeTech Programs. Griffiths is internationally renowned for her work in the discovery of the genetics of migraine headaches. [1]
Griffiths graduated with a bachelor's degree in science in 1978 from the University of New South Wales. After subsequently completing her honours degree, she was awarded an NHMRC Biomedical Postgraduate Scholarship to undertake her PhD at Sydney University. She went on to spend time as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Sydney, before moving to Griffith University on the Gold Coast, Queensland. There, she worked her way up to become Professor and Dean of Research (Griffith Health) and Director of the Griffith Health Institute (now called Menzies Health Institute Queensland). In 2013, she relocated her laboratory to the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation at Queensland University of Technology, where she took up the role of Executive Director. When the Institute was disbanded in 2020, she was appointed to the position of Inaugural Director of QUT's Centre of Genomics and Personalised Health. [2] [3]
Prof. Griffiths’ research has led to diagnostic breakthroughs for several neurogenetic disorders, including familial migraine, ataxia, epilepsy and hereditary stroke. Her research has appeared in more than 400 peer-reviewed international journals, including Nature, the American Journal of Human Genetics, and Nature Neurology. [4] [5]
Google Scholar lists over 500 documents by Griffiths, which have been cited in excess of 16,000 times, and calculates her h-index as 67. [6]
Distinguished Professor Griffiths has contributed significantly to her profession. She serves as Chair, Board of Censors for Diagnostic Genomics with the Human Genetics Society of Australasia. [7] Additionally she has served on a number of boards to various bodies including the National Heart Foundation of Australia (Queensland Division), [8]
Lyn R. Griffiths | |
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Alma mater |
University of New South Wales ( BSc(Hons)); University of Sydney ( PhD) |
Known for | Genetics of migraine |
Awards | Fellow,
Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018); Australian of the Year, Queensland Finalist (2005) Member of the Order of Australia (2023) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Human Genetics |
Institutions | Queensland University of Technology |
Website |
www |
Lyn Robyn Griffiths AM is an Australian academic who serves as Distinguished Professor of molecular genetics at Queensland University of Technology, where she is director of the Centre for Genomics and Personalised Health, the Genomics Research Centre and the BridgeTech Programs. Griffiths is internationally renowned for her work in the discovery of the genetics of migraine headaches. [1]
Griffiths graduated with a bachelor's degree in science in 1978 from the University of New South Wales. After subsequently completing her honours degree, she was awarded an NHMRC Biomedical Postgraduate Scholarship to undertake her PhD at Sydney University. She went on to spend time as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Sydney, before moving to Griffith University on the Gold Coast, Queensland. There, she worked her way up to become Professor and Dean of Research (Griffith Health) and Director of the Griffith Health Institute (now called Menzies Health Institute Queensland). In 2013, she relocated her laboratory to the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation at Queensland University of Technology, where she took up the role of Executive Director. When the Institute was disbanded in 2020, she was appointed to the position of Inaugural Director of QUT's Centre of Genomics and Personalised Health. [2] [3]
Prof. Griffiths’ research has led to diagnostic breakthroughs for several neurogenetic disorders, including familial migraine, ataxia, epilepsy and hereditary stroke. Her research has appeared in more than 400 peer-reviewed international journals, including Nature, the American Journal of Human Genetics, and Nature Neurology. [4] [5]
Google Scholar lists over 500 documents by Griffiths, which have been cited in excess of 16,000 times, and calculates her h-index as 67. [6]
Distinguished Professor Griffiths has contributed significantly to her profession. She serves as Chair, Board of Censors for Diagnostic Genomics with the Human Genetics Society of Australasia. [7] Additionally she has served on a number of boards to various bodies including the National Heart Foundation of Australia (Queensland Division), [8]