Alexander Drakesmith’s work is centred on the biology of iron, and on the iron regulatory hormone hepcidin in the context of immunity, infection and anaemia. Our projects traverse molecular mechanisms, translational studies, and global health.

Noel de Miranda is principal investigator at the Leiden University Medical Center. Noel’s work is centered on the colorectal cancer.

Andrada Ciucă is a postdoc researcher at Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania. She has a PhD from the same university with a thesis on genetic counselling, a M.Sc. in Genetic Counselling and a B.A. in Psychology.

Dr. Brown has been working in the field of quantitative bioimaging for almost 30 years. Her research focuses on applying biophysical techniques to fluorescence microscopy images to extract quantitative data measuring protein distributions, dynamics and interactions

Professor Rod T. Mitchell is Professor of Developmental Endocrinology and research group leader within the MRC Centre for Reproductive Health at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist at The Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh.

Luis A Moreno Aznar has a degree in Medicine and Surgery (University of Zaragoza) and a diploma in Human Nutrition, Dietetics and Therapeutic Dietetics and in Public Health and Community Health (University of Nancy (France). Currently, he works as a Professor of Public Health in the University of Zaragoza.

Dr. Anderson Rocha is a full-Professor for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Forensics at the Institute of Computing at the University of Campinas, Brazil, where he directs the Artificial Intelligence Lab., Recod.ai.

Dr. Ratner’s research, starting in 1967, has focused on biomaterials, the materials used in medical devices, diagnostics and drug delivery systems. In addition, he has also concentrated on the study of the biointerface, the surface zone of materials and biological structures interacting with biological systems.