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Wray, Naomi

FAA FAHMS

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Geneticist and Statistician

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Naomi Wray is a statistical geneticist whose research in quantitative genetics and genomics methodology has applications to neurological and psychiatric disorders. She joined the Queensland Institute of Medical Research in 2005 to establish the Psychiatric Genetics Laboratory. Moving to the Queensland Brian Institute at the University of Queensland in 2011, Wray is also a Professorial Research Fellow at the University's Institute of Molecular Bioscience.

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"Naomi Wray is a leading complex trait statistical geneticist. She has significantly contributed to quantitative genetic and evolutionary selection theory, with applications in agriculture and medicine. Her theoretical work on the prediction of rates of inbreeding in populations undergoing selection, led to changes in agricultural selection programmes worldwide in balancing genetic improvement with levels of inbreeding. She has developed innovative quantitative genetic methods for the estimation of genetic parameters from genetic epidemiology studies and methods for genetic risk prediction. She has applied these to psychiatric disorders, thereby contributing to the elucidation of the genetic basis of common, distressing, complex diseases. " [from https://www.science.org.au/profile/naomi-wray 8/9/2022]

Chronology

1984
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Edinburgh
1986
Education - Master of Science (MS), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
1998
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Edinburgh
2002 - 2011
Career position - Geneticist, Queensland Institute of Medical Research
2005
Life event - Settled in Australia
2010 - 2013
Career position - Australian Research Council Future Fellow
2011 - 2015
Career position - Geneticist, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland
2015 -
Career position - Geneticist, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland
2016 -
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
2017 - 2021
Career position - Principal Research Fellow, National Health and Medical Research Council
2018 - 2023
Career position - Head of the Centre for Population & Disease Genomics, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland
2019
Award - Elizabeth Blackburn Investigator Grant Award (Leadership in Basic Science), Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences
2020 -
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (FAHMS)
2023 -
Career position - Michael Davys Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford

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