Lyn Horn

Lyn Horn (MBBch, DTM&H, DCH, DipIRE, MPhil, PhD) is currently the Director of the Office of Research Integrity at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and is an Extraordinary [Honorary] Associate Professor in the Centre for Applied Ethics at Stellenbosch University. Prior to moving to UCT five years ago, she held the position of Research Integrity Officer at Stellenbosch University for five years.

Lyn is a medical doctor with a PhD in Bioethics. She worked as a clinician in the public health sector for the first twenty years of her career before transitioning to an academic work environment in 2004. She has been teaching research ethics and bioethics at her home institutions since 2004. In her current position at UCT she is actively involved in promoting and facilitating the responsible conduct of research across the entire university and provides support to several faculty and senate-level research ethics committees She is also involved in the investigations of allegations of breaches in research ethics and integrity.

Lyn serves as the bioethics consultant for four international EDCTP funded clinical trials relating to Tuberculosis and HIV that are currently active in several African countries, hence she remains closely involved with research teams implementing clinical trials in Africa.