Biography

Dr. Cesar Victora, Ph.D Cesar is a Brazilian born epidemiologist, academic, and specialist in child health and nutrition.  He is an Emeritus Professor at the Federal University of Pelotas and holds honorary appointments at the Universities of Oxford, Harvard and John’s Hopkins. He is a past recipient of the Canada Gairdner Foundation John [...]

Dr. Anne Carla Ferguson-Smith, FRS FMedSci Anne is Professor and Chair of the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). Her research concerns the molecular events governing pre- and postnatal mammalian development. It is focussed in two areas in particular: the developmental role [...]

Dr. Shinichi Kuriyama, M.D. Ph.D. Shinichi is a Professor at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, and Director of the Tohoku Megabank Organisation. He leads two large-scale genome cohort studies, the community- based cohort and the birth and three generation cohort, one of the largest three generational data sets globally. His research goals are to [...]

Dr. Tracy Bale, PhD Tracy is a Professor of Pharmacology and Director of the Centre for Epigenetic Research in Child Health and Brain Development at the University of Maryland.  Her major research focus concerns stress, particularly during pregnancy, as a risk factor for neurodevelopmental disorders and neuropsychiatric disease in the offspring, assessing sex [...]

Dr. Tiffany Green, PhD Tiffany is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Population Health and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. She is an economist with major interests in health economics, family planning, reproductive health, maternal and child health and health disparities. More recent [...]

Dr. Elaine Holmes, PhD Elaine is Director of the Centre for Computational and Systems Medicine at the Australian National Phenome Centre, the Premier’s Fellow for Phenomics, and an Australian Laureate Fellow. Previously she was at Imperial College, London, where she was the most highly cited woman faculty member. Her research involves unravelling the [...]