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Since 1992, he has been an adjunct Professor in the Departments of Pathology (1993), Zoology (1996), and Psychology (2003) at the University of Queensland, and Senior Principal Research Fellow at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute. [citation needed] Together with J.D. Mathews, he established in 1978 the Australian Twin Registry.
The power of twin designs arises from the fact that twins may be either identical (monozygotic (MZ), i.e. developing from a single fertilized egg and therefore sharing all of their polymorphic alleles) or fraternal (dizygotic (DZ), i.e. developing from two fertilized eggs and therefore sharing on average 50% of their alleles, the same level of genetic similarity found in non-twin siblings).
He is a specialist in twin studies, genetics, epigenetics, and microbiome and diet. [9] [10] He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to the Covid-19 response. [11] He was also appointed Senior Investigator at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). [12]
Australian Synchrotron; Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute; Bio21 Institute; Brain Research Institute; Burnet Institute; Howard Florey Institute; La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science; Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre; Murdoch Children's Research Institute; National Ageing Research Institute; Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre; St. Vincent's ...
Gandevia is a clinical neurophysiologist who focuses his research and clinical work primarily on patients with spinal cord injury and neuromuscular disorders. Gandevia, together with three other scientists, founded Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA), previously known as the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute. [6]
Braithwaite is a partner with the Australian Genomics Health Alliance. Braithwaite co-led the CareTrack Australia project, part of a National Health and Medical Research Council program grant, that examined the appropriateness of the care provided in Australia. It showed that adults in Australian received appropriate care in 57% of consultations.
Elaine Holmes FAA is an Australian systems biologist, and chemist, who was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2023. She was awarded an ARC Laureate Fellowship in 2020. She is a computational biologist working in metabolomic phenotyping , [ 1 ] spectrometry and translational clinical medicine , [ 2 ] at Murdoch University ...
Grant Robert Sutherland AC (born 2 June 1945) is a retired Australian human geneticist and cytogeneticist.He was the Director, Department of Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics, Adelaide Women's and Children's Hospital for 27 years (1975-2002), then became the Foundation Research Fellow there until 2007.