Professor Lyle Palmer

lyle@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

Professor Lyle Palmer is the Principal Investigator for an NCARD grant which will examine the genetic understanding of asbestos related disorders.

Lyle is an internationally renowned geneticist and epidemiologist who is expert in the genetics of complex respiratory diseases. He plays key roles in a number of clinical teams in Australia, the UK and the US involving genetics research into asthma, sleep apnoea, cardiovascular disease, cancer, fetal growth regulation and diabetes. His research team is also active in methodological research in statistical genomics and medical informatics.

Lyle is the Foundation Chair in Genetic Epidemiology at the University of Western Australia, where he is also a Professor in the Schools of Medicine & Pharmacology and Population Health. He is the founder of the Laboratory for Genetic Epidemiology in the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research. Before returning to Western Australia in mid-2003, he was an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Statistical Genomics at the Channing Laboratory, Boston. Lyle has been recognized for his leadership role in biomedical research by numerous awards, including Fulbright and Churchill Fellowships. In 2001, Professor Palmer was appointed the youngest ever section editor for the "Encyclopaedia of Biostatistics" (EOB), the standard international reference work for biostatistics. Since completing his PhD in 1998, he has chaired and/or given invited symposia at over 30 international scientific meetings, has delivered over 60 invited lectures, has produced over 120 publications, and has co-edited a commercially successful encyclopaedia of genetic statistics that has become a standard reference.