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  • 2020 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science

Overview

Lin Fritschi is a researcher affiliated with Curtin University in Australia, with a focus on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their scholarly contributions include significant work in various subfields such as genetics, public health, environmental and occupational health, health toxicology and mutagenesis, radiological and ultrasound technology, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

Their research topics cover a range of areas, including occupational health and safety research, occupational and environmental lung diseases, air quality and health impacts, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, occupational exposure and asthma, genetic associations and epidemiology, and carcinogens and genotoxicity assessment.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Sabine Behrens, Hermann Brenner, Manjeet K. Bolla, Mikael Eriksson, and Jose E. Castelao.

Lin Fritschi has published extensively in noted venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • American Journal of Industrial Medicine
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • International Journal of Epidemiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Selected recent publications of Lin Fritschi's research include:

  • Exposure to Occupational Hazards among Health Care Workers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review, 2021, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Physical activity, sedentary time and breast cancer risk: a Mendelian randomisation study, 2022, British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • Combined Associations of a Polygenic Risk Score and Classical Risk Factors With Breast Cancer Risk, 2020, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • Distinct Reproductive Risk Profiles for Intrinsic-Like Breast Cancer Subtypes: Pooled Analysis of Population-Based Studies, 2022, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • Transcriptome-wide association study of breast cancer risk by estrogen-receptor status, 2020, Genetic Epidemiology

In recognition of their contributions to the field, Lin Fritschi was named a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Sara Lindström;Sara Lindström;Joe Dennis;Jonathan Beesley

  • Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Subtypes

    Nasim Mavaddat;Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Joe Dennis;Michael Lush

  • Burden of Disease from Environmental Noise: Quantification of Healthy Life Years Lost in Europe

    Lin Fritschi;Lex Brown;Rokho Kim;Dietrich Schwela

  • Considerations of circadian impact for defining 'shift work' in cancer studies: IARC working group report

    Richard G. Stevens;Johnni Hansen;Giovanni Costa;Erhard Haus

  • Physical Activity and Risks of Proximal and Distal Colon Cancers: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Terry Boyle;Tessa Germaine Keegel;Fiona Bull;Jane Heyworth

  • Validation of self-reported sleep against actigraphy.

    Jennifer Girschik;Lin Fritschi;Jane Heyworth;Flavie Waters

  • Occupational Exposures and Gastric Cancer

    Marie-Élise Parent;Jack Siemiatycki;Lin Fritschi

  • Identification of ten variants associated with risk of estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer.

    Roger L Milne;Roger L Milne;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Jonathan Beesley

  • Leukemia risk associated with low-level benzene exposure.

    Deborah Catherine Glass;Christopher N Gray;Damien J Jolley;Carl Gibbons

  • Risk of respiratory complications and wound infection in patients undergoing ambulatory surgery: smokers versus nonsmokers.

    Paul S. Myles;George A. Iacono;Jennifer O. Hunt;Helen Fletcher

  • Differences in the carcinogenic evaluation of glyphosate between the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

    Christopher J. Portier;Bruce K Armstrong;Bruce C Baguley;Xaver Baur

  • How common are myeloproliferative neoplasms? A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Glen J Titmarsh;Andrew S Duncombe;Mary Frances McMullin;Michael O'Rorke

  • Identification of nine new susceptibility loci for endometrial cancer

    Tracy A. O'Mara;Dylan M. Glubb;Frédéric Amant;Daniela Annibali

  • Hypotheses for mechanisms linking shiftwork and cancer

    Lin Fritschi;D.C. Glass;Jane Heyworth;K. Aronson

  • Health behaviors of cancer survivors: data from an Australian population-based survey

    Elizabeth G. Eakin;Danny R. Youlden;Peter D. Baade;Sheleigh P. Lawler

  • A transcriptome-wide association study of 229,000 women identifies new candidate susceptibility genes for breast cancer

    Lang Wu;Wei Shi;Jirong Long;Xingyi Guo

  • Sun exposure may protect against non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a case-control study

    Ann Maree Hughes;Bruce K Armstrong;Claire M Vajdic;Jennifer Turner

  • Incidence and survival for Merkel cell carcinoma in Queensland, Australia, 1993-2010.

    Danny R. Youlden;Peter Soyer;Philippa H. Youl;Lin Fritschi

  • Dermal exposure associated with occupational end use of pesticides and the role of protective measures

    Ewan Marcel MacFarlane;Renee Carey;Tessa Germaine Keegel;Tessa Germaine Keegel;Sonia El-Zaemay

  • Nodular Type and Older Age as the Most Significant Associations of Thick Melanoma in Victoria, Australia

    Alexander J. Chamberlain;Lin Fritschi;Graham G. Giles;John P. Dowling

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas de Klerk
Nicholas de Klerk University of Western Australia
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Bruce K. Armstrong
Bruce K. Armstrong University of Sydney
Hiltrud Brauch
Hiltrud Brauch German Cancer Research Center
Roger L. Milne
Roger L. Milne Cancer Council Victoria
Arthur W. Musk
Arthur W. Musk University of Western Australia
Peter A. Fasching
Peter A. Fasching University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
David C. Whiteman
David C. Whiteman QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Melissa C. Southey
Melissa C. Southey Monash University
Kyriaki Michailidou
Kyriaki Michailidou Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics

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