International Scientific Programme Committee

Helen Griffiths

Helen Griffiths graduated with first class BSc (Hons) degree in Biochemistry from Bath University in 1985. She received her PhD on the topic of “Reactive oxygen species damage in rheumatoid arthritis” from the Faculty of Medicine at Birmingham University in 1989.  She has 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. Her present position is Executive Dean of the School of Life and Health Sciences at Aston University.

She is a member of the Editorial Boards for Free Radical Research and Inflammation Research, is a member of the Executive of the Society for Free Radical Research Europe, where she serves as Honorary Secretary and has been involved in the organisation of several scientific conferences. She is a panel member of the Biochemical Society “Metabolism” theme and serves on the BBSRC committee D, Research into Ageing Advisory Board, has served as Chair of the Norwegian Research Council Molecular Biology review committee and led a seminal Oxidative Biomarkers review to provide a state of the art position paper from 15 EU researchers under the EU programme banner of Eurofeda.
She is the founder of the Aston Research Centre for Healthy Ageing, established 2009, which focuses on understanding and mitigating the effects of ageing on metabolism, the eye and the brain.

Her main research interests concerns generation and redox reactions of reactive oxygen species, in chronic inflammation and ageing with particular focus on characterising oxidative modifications to proteins and lipids. Prof. Griffiths is an author of over 100 publications with many further books, chapters and conference proceedings. She is married with three children.

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