Professor Griffin is a biomedical scientist with expertise in lipid metabolism, nutritional biochemistry and cardiovascular disease. After his BSc in medical laboratory science (1984), he gained his PhD on the effects of exercise & diet on human plasma lipoproteins at the University of Aberdeen (1988), and undertook postdoctoral research in Pathological Biochemistry at Glasgow Royal Infirmary until 1994. Since then, he has held academic posts as a Lecturer, Senior lecturer, Reader and Professor of Nutritional Metabolism at the University of Surrey. He is a teacher of undergraduate dietitians, biochemists & medical students, and postgraduates in clinical biochemistry and nutritional medicine, and an active researcher in human nutrition in relation to cardiovascular health. He has published widely on the topics of lipids, dietary fat and cardiovascular risk, and has received grants for his research from the Medical Research Council, British Heart Foundation, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Food Standards Agency and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

Role of human nutrition in the pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease; effects of diet on blood lipids and lipoprotein metabolism; genetic and environmental determinants of coronary atherosclerosis.

Cold F, Winther KH, Pastor-Barriuso R, Rayman MP, Guallar E, Nybo M, Griffin BA, Stranges S, Cold S. (2015) 'Randomised controlled trial of the effect of long-term selenium supplementation on plasma cholesterol in an elderly Danish population'. CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS BRITISH JOURNAL OF NUTRITION, 114 (11), pp. 1807-1818. doi: 10.1017/S0007114515003499 Griffin BA. (2015) 'Relevance of liver fat to the impact of dietary extrinsic sugars on lipid metabolism.'. Proc Nutr Soc, England: 74 (3), pp. 208-214. doi: 10.1017/S0029665115002050 Escolà-Gil JC, Julve J, Griffin BA, Freeman D, Blanco-Vaca F. (2015) 'HDL and lifestyle interventions'. Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, 224, pp. 569-592. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-09665-0_18 Johns I, Goff L, Bluck LJ, Griffin BA, Jebb SA, Lovegrove JA, Sanders TAB, Frost G, Dornhorst A. (2014) 'Plasma free fatty acids do not provide the link between obesity and insulin resistance or beta-cell dysfunction: results of the Reading, Imperial, Surrey, Cambridge, Kings (RISCK) study'. WILEY-BLACKWELL DIABETIC MEDICINE, 31 (11), pp. 1310-1315. doi: 10.1111/dme.12550