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Professor Lyn Griffiths is an Australian Research Scientist and Director of the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation at the Queensland University of Technology. Her research has been largely dedicated to identifying genes involved in common and complex diseases, such as migraine, hypertension, multiple sclerosis and several forms of cancer. Her main expertise is in the field of molecular genetics and in particular, in human gene mapping and gene expression analyses, where she has co-authored more than 250 publications in the field. A significant amount of her research has been undertaken on multigenerational families, including a geographically isolated and unique founder population on Norfolk Island who are descendents of the Mutiny on the Bounty, , ,. Some of her most important work has mapped and identified several gene loci and gene candidates as having a role in migraine susceptibility.

Education and Career
Griffiths completed her undergraduate degree at the University of New South Wales in the Biochemistry department and then her PhD in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney in 1990. She later moved to Queensland where she established the Genomics Research Centre at Griffith University on the Gold Coast. She was also a Director of the Australian Society for Medical Research from 1999-2001. In 2004 she was appointed as Head of the School of Medical Science and then in 2008, she became Director of the Griffith Institute for Health and Medical Research and Dean of Research for the Faculty of Health at Griffith University. Professor Griffiths was appointed the Executive Director of the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation at Queensland University of Technology in 2013.

Awards and Honours
•	Centenary Medal Award for Distinguished Service to Education & Medical Research in 2004. •	Queensland finalist for Australian of the Year in 2005.

•	Suncorp Queenslander of the Year Nominee in 2006[1].