User:DrThneed/Lynette Ferguson

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''Year elected: 2016 | Professor Lynnette Ferguson, University of Auckland, is a world leader in nutritional genomics with an international reputation in mutagenesis and in the causes and control of chronic disease. Lynnette led Nutrigenomics New Zealand, a major new science platform in New Zealand and the largest and longest-lasting programme of its kind, for ten years. An early innovator in mutagenesis studies, she was among the first to recognise the mutagenic potential of DNA binding drugs. Her studies on the detection of dietary and environmental mutagens in New Zealand led to her establishment of the Centre for Mutagen Testing within the Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre. She established the Discipline of Nutrition at the University of Auckland in 2000, and has served on several Government committees and national science bodies.''