Jonathan Flint (scientist)
{{short description|British behavior geneticist}}
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| fields = Behavioural genetics
Major depressive disorder
| workplaces = University of California, Los Angeles
University of Oxford
Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics
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| alma_mater = St Mary's Hospital, London
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Jonathan Flint {{post-nominals|FRS}}{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/jonathan-flint-14090/|title=Professor Jonathan Flint FRS|website=royalsociety.org|author=Anon|year=2019|access-date=23 April 2019}} 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.{{Google Scholar id}}{{EuropePMC|ORCID=0000-0002-9427-4429}} He is also a senior scientist in the Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics at UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.[https://www.semel.ucla.edu/profile/jonathan-flint Faculty profile] at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior{{Cite web |url=https://grandchallenges.ucla.edu/depression/team/ |title=Depression Team |website=UCLA Grand Challenges |access-date=2018-07-12}}
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.{{Cite journal |doi=10.1038/523268a |pmid=26178945 |title=First robust genetic links to depression emerge |last=Ledford |first=Heidi |date=2015-07-15 |journal=Nature |volume=523 |issue=7560 |pages=268–269|bibcode=2015Natur.523..268L |doi-access=free }} 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.{{Cite web |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/Psychiatrist-to-Lead-Major/234723 |title=Psychiatrist to Lead Major UCLA Study Seeking Genetic Links in Depression |last=Monaghan |first=Peter |date=2016-01-03 |website=The Chronicle of Higher Education |access-date=2018-07-12}}
He serves on the editorial board for the journal Current Biology.{{cite web|url=https://www.cell.com/current-biology/editorial-board|title=Editorial Board: Current Biology|website=Cell.com|access-date=23 April 2019}}
=Awards and honours=
Flint received The Genetics Society's Medal in 2014.{{Cite web |url=http://www.genetics.org.uk/medals-and-prizes/genetics-society-medals-and-lectures/genetics-society-medal/genetics-society-medal-2014-jonathan-flint/ |title=Genetics Society Medal 2014 - Jonathan Flint |website=Genetics.org.uk|access-date=2018-07-12}} He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019.
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Category:David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA faculty
Category:Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellows
Category:British population geneticists
Category:Academics of the University of Oxford
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Category:Psychiatric geneticists
Category:British psychiatrists
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society
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