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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2022-09-08 human Helen Cohn updated 2026-01-20 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007082b.htm person Wray Naomi FAA FAHMS AACR2 Statistician Geneticist 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.

"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]

1984 1984 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Edinburgh 1986 1986 Education - Master of Science (MS), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A. 1998 1998 Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Edinburgh 2002 2011 Career position - Geneticist, Queensland Institute of Medical Research 2005 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 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 Nina Kondelos Prize, Australian Neuroscience Society (2007 - )

Awarded the Prize by the Australasian Neuroscience Society 2016

 The University of Queensland (1910 - )

Geneticist, Queensland Brain Institute 2011 -

 Australian Academy of Science (1954 - )

Elected Fellow 2016

 Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (2014 - )

Fellow 2020 -

 'Wray, Naomi', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Wray, Naomi Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource: Fellows of the Academy Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences Fellows of the Academy Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences Resource: The Academy's Fellows [including profiles and other relevant links] Australian Academy of Science The Academy's Fellows [including profiles and other relevant links] Canberra Australian Academy of Science 2019