Biography

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 [...]

Dr. David Edwards MA MBBS DSc FRCP FRCR FRCPCH FMedSci David Edwards is a consultant neonatologist at the Evelina London Children's Hospital and Professor of Paediatrics & Neonatal Medicine at King's College London. He has studied the mechanisms of perinatal brain damage, working to reduce death and severe neurological impairment caused by: (a) [...]

Dr Kang Lee, Ph.D., University of New Brunswick Dr. Lee is a developmental psychologist who studies moral development and the development of lying in children between 2 and 16 years of age. His past research has focused specifically on children’s moral understanding of lying and truth-telling in different social-cultural contexts, their actual lie- or [...]

Grant Bruno Dr. Bruno is nêhiyaw (Plains Cree), a registered member of Samson Cree Nation, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alberta. With a background rooted in nêhiyaw understandings of health, Dr. Bruno’s work focuses on creating culturally responsive healthcare models that support neurodivergent Indigenous children [...]

Janet McLaughlin, PHD Janet is an associate progessor of community health and the co-founder and co-director of the Laurier Autism Research Consortium (LARC) at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her research explores service access and education issues for autistic children and youth, as well as well-being, stress, and employment issues of their caregivers. She is [...]

Dr. Linda Richter Distinguished Professor and Director of DST-NRF Center of Excellence in Human Development, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Dr. Richter’s research focuses on the psychological determinants of child development, and sexual and reproductive maturation. The Department of Science and Innovation – National Research Foundation (DST-NRF).