Prof. Lindsay Brown is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, Griffith University, Australia. He holds a BPharm (Hons) (1974) from The University of Queensland and a PhD (1981) from the University of Sydney. He was a Professor of Biomedical Sciences and headed the Functional Foods Research Group at the University of Southern Queensland. His research focus has been on functional foods and their roles, mainly using rat models of chronic human diseases such as metabolic syndrome, IBD and chronic renal failure.