Jennifer Byrne (research scientist)
Jennifer Byrne | |
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| Born | Jennifer Anne Byrne 1966 (age 58–59) |
| Alma mater | University of Queensland |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Sydney NSW Health Pathology |
| Thesis | The structure of the human ribonucleoside diphosphate reductase M1 subunit gene, and the use of this locus in studies of embryonal tumours (1993) |
Jennifer Anne Byrne (born 1966) is an Australian cancer researcher and academic. She is a Professor of Molecular Oncology at University of Sydney, Australia. Byrne is notable for not only her cancer research, but the uncovering of academic fraud and junk science in cancer research.
As a result of her and her colleague's investigations, 17 papers have been retracted, and others have been noted. As a result, the journal Nature rated Byrne as one of their "Ten people who mattered" in 2017.