Helen Griffiths, BSc Hons PhD
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University of Surrey
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Biography & Research:
Helen Griffiths was appointed as Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Surrey from December 2016. She is a member of the University Executive Board.
Helen graduated with first class BSc (Hons) degree in Biochemistry from Bath University in 1985. She gained her PhD on “Reactive oxygen species damage in rheumatoid arthritis” from the Faculty of Medicine at Birmingham University (1989). She has previously been an academic faculty member at Birmingham University, Leicester University and Aston University where she was awarded a personal Chair in Biomedical Sciences in 2005. She founded the Aston Centre for Healthy Ageing in 2009 and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology in 2011.
Helen has published over 150 peer reviewed papers. She has pursued an increase in understanding of the roles of nutrients in health, inflammatory and degenerative diseases that increase with ageing [3-5].
These studies have highlighted that a non-linear relationship exists between “vitamin E“ (alpha tocopherol) and periodontal health [3]; that carotenoids are lower in vascular dementia in a mnaner that is unrelated to intake [5]; and that the benefit of almonds, which are rich in alpha tocopherol, on vascular health is unrelated to antioxidant effects [4].
