Jonathan Flint (scientist)

Jonathan Flint
FRS
Alma materSt Mary's Hospital, London
Scientific career
FieldsBehavioural genetics
Major depressive disorder[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles
University of Oxford
Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics
Websitewww.semel.ucla.edu/profile/jonathan-flint

Jonathan Flint FRS[2] is a British behavior geneticist and Professor in Residence in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.[1][3] He is also a senior scientist in the Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics at UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.[4][5]

Career and research

Flint is known for his research on the genetics of complex traits in mice and major depressive disorder in humans. In 2015, he and his colleagues published a study that was the first to link two genetic variants to this disorder.[6] In 2016, he left his post as director of the Psychiatric Genetics Group at the University of Oxford's Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics to join UCLA. Upon doing so, he became one of four directors of UCLA's Depression Grand Challenge, which aims to conduct a study of 100,000 people to search for genetic risk factors for depression. This study is intended to be the largest genetic study of a disorder ever conducted in humans.[7] He serves on the editorial board for the journal Current Biology.[8]

Awards and honours

Flint received The Genetics Society's Medal in 2014.[9] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Jonathan Flint publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b Anon (2019). "Professor Jonathan Flint FRS". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  3. ^ Jonathan Flint publications from Europe PubMed Central
  4. ^ Faculty profile at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
  5. ^ "Depression Team". UCLA Grand Challenges. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
  6. ^ Ledford, Heidi (15 July 2015). "First robust genetic links to depression emerge". Nature. 523 (7560): 268–269. Bibcode:2015Natur.523..268L. doi:10.1038/523268a. PMID 26178945.
  7. ^ Monaghan, Peter (3 January 2016). "Psychiatrist to Lead Major UCLA Study Seeking Genetic Links in Depression". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
  8. ^ "Editorial Board: Current Biology". Cell.com. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  9. ^ "Genetics Society Medal 2014 - Jonathan Flint". Genetics.org.uk. Retrieved 12 July 2018.


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