Lyn R. Griffiths

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Lyn R. Griffiths

AM
Alma mater University of New South Wales
(BSc(Hons));
University of Sydney
(PhD)
Known forGenetics of migraine
AwardsFellow, 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.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/lyn.griffiths

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]

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Career

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]

Research

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]

Publications

Journal articles

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]

Book chapters

Service to professional organisations

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]

Recognition

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References

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  2. QUT. "Distinguished Professor Lyn Griffiths". Academic Profile. Queensland University of Technology. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  3. QUT. "Distinguished Professor Lyn Griffiths". Genomics research Centre.
  4. Genomics Research Centre. "Lyn Griffiths". QUT.
  5. Research Gate. "Lyn Griffiths". Research Gate.
  6. Scholar. "Griffiths LR" . Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  7. HGSA. "Board of Censors". Human Genetics Society of Australasia.
  8. Queensland Division. "2017 Annual Report" (PDF). National Heart Foundation.
  9. Molecular and Cellular Probes. "Most Downloaded Articles". Elsevier.
  10. HGSA. "HGSA Orations and Sutherland Lectures". Human Genetics Society of Australasia.
  11. "Australia Day 2023 Honours: Full list". The Sydney Morning Herald. 25 January 2023. Retrieved 25 January 2023.