Lyn Chitty Explained

Honorific Prefix:Dame
Lyn Susan Chitty
Workplaces:Great Ormond Street Hospital
Alma Mater:University College London
Known For:Non-invasive prenatal diagnostics

Dame Lyn Susan Chitty is a British physician and Professor of Genetics and Fetal Medicine at University College London. She is the deputy director of the National Institute for Health and Care Research Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre. She is the 2022 president of the International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis.[1] Her research considers non-invasive prenatal diagnostics. She was made a Dame in the 2022 New Year Honours.

Early life and education

Chitty earned her medical degree at the University of London.[2]

Research and career

Chitty's interest is in prenatal genetic diagnostics and ultrasound screening of fatal skeletal abnormalities, enabling parents to find out about the health of their unborn children.[3] She was appointed a Chair the Great Ormond Street Hospital in 2009.

Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for conditions such as Down syndrome[4] was made available through commercial providers in the United States and China in 2011, and in the United Kingdom by 2014. Chitty led the National Institute for Health and Care Research RAPID (Reliable, Accurate Prenatal, non-Invasive Diagnosis) programme,[5] which looked to investigate all aspects of non-invasive testing and evaluate how it could be incorporated into the National Health Service.[6] She showed that implementing noninvasive prenatal testing to the NHS was cost-neutral, and reduced the number of women who needed an invasive test to confirm a high-risk result.[7] [8] [9]

Chitty recruited one third of the rare diseases participants to the 100,000 genome project.[10] [11] [12] She helped members of the public understand genomics and genomic sequencing. At GOSH she worked with young people to understand public health and genomics. She has argued that the lives of cancer patients will be transformed with genomic testing.[13]

In 2020, she was made President of the International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis.[1] She was appointed a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 2022.[14]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Presidents . 31 December 2022 . ispdhome.org.
  2. Web site: 31 December 2022. gmc-uk.org. Lyn Susan Chitty profile.
  3. Web site: Professor Lyn Chitty . 31 December 2022. norththamesglh.nhs.uk . en.
  4. Web site: Down's syndrome has become the newest front in the abortion wars . 31 December 2022. New Scientist . en-US.
  5. Web site: Lyn Chitty profile. 31 December 2022 . AGBT.org . en-US.
  6. Hill . Melissa . Wright . David . Daley . Rebecca . Lewis . Celine . McKay . Fiona . Mason . Sarah . Lench . Nicholas . Howarth . Abigail . Boustred . Christopher . Lo . Kitty . Plagnol . Vincent . Spencer . Kevin . Fisher . Jane . Kroese . Mark . Morris . Stephen . 16 July 2014 . Evaluation of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for aneuploidy in an NHS setting: a reliable accurate prenatal non-invasive diagnosis (RAPID) protocol . BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth . 14 . 1 . 229 . 10.1186/1471-2393-14-229 . 1471-2393 . 4226037 . 25027965 . free .
  7. Web site: Research leads to safer Down's Syndrome testing for expectant mothers . 31 December 2022 . UCLPartners.com . en-GB.
  8. News: 6 June 2015. Down's blood test 'would cut risk of miscarriage' . en-GB . BBC News . 31 December 2022.
  9. News: 12 October 2015. First 'in womb' stem cell trial to begin . en-GB . BBC News . 31 December 2022.
  10. Web site: Professor Lyn Chitty made a Dame in New Year's Honours . 31 December 2022. gosh.nhs.uk.
  11. Griffin . Blanche H. . Chitty . Lyn S. . Bitner-Glindzicz . Maria . 9 December 2016 . The 100 000 Genomes Project: What it means for paediatrics . Archives of Disease in Childhood: Education and Practice Edition . 102 . 2 . 105–107 . en . 10.1136/archdischild-2016-311029 . 1743-0585 . 27940446. 5231863 .
  12. Peter . Michelle . Hammond . Jennifer . Sanderson . Saskia C. . Gurasashvili . Jana . Hunter . Amy . Searle . Beverly . Patch . Christine . Chitty . Lyn S. . Hill . Melissa . Lewis . Celine . May 2022 . Participant experiences of genome sequencing for rare diseases in the 100,000 Genomes Project: a mixed methods study . European Journal of Human Genetics . en . 30 . 5 . 604–610 . 10.1038/s41431-022-01065-2 . 35264738 . 9091267 . 1476-5438.
  13. News: Times.co.uk. Cancer patients have lives transformed by gene tests . en . 31 December 2022 . 0140-0460.
  14. Web site: Lead NHS vaccine nurse and frontline staff among health service honours . 31 December 2022. england.nhs.uk.

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