Associate Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, Karolinska Institutet Sven Sandin is a statistician and epidemiologist with 35 years of experience, 200 research publications and an Associate Professor at the Departments of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York.. He has a background from the pharmaceutical industry where he gained broad experience in design and analysis of clinical trials, phases I to IV, production and toxicology. Since joining Karolinska Institutet in 2003 he has been involved in studies of pregnancy related outcomes, psychiatric epidemiology, cancer, autoimmune diseases and mapping risk to occupation and familial exposure using the Swedish registers. His current research focus is on the etiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders. As such he is the PI of a NIH funded project examining autism risk in families with Rheumatoid arthritis (RAASD) and the PI of a project funded by the Swedish Research Council examining etiological links between autism and preterm birth. He is the PI of a two genetic data collections in Sweden. One includes 3,000 individuals with autism in Sweden and another includes more than 3,000 individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder, Tourette syndrome and tics. The purpose of the genetic studies is to identify genes and possible environmental factors that increase the risk of developing the different disorders. He is the PI of the Women Lifestyle and Health cohort (WLH) which was set up to create a large prospective cohort designed specifically to investigate the association between lifestyle factors (exogenous hormones and dietary habits) and cancer and cardiovascular diseases in young women. The cohort includes 50,000 women who answered an extensive questionnaire in 1991/92, a follow-up questionnaire in 2003/04.
Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biointerfaces Institute, Applied Physics, Macromolecular Science & Engineering, University of Michigan Somin Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She holds joint appointments in Biomedical Engineering, Biointerfaces Institute, Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Applied Physics. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the AFOSR Young Investigator Award. She is a member of IEEE and SPIE. Her research is in light-matter interactions to image below the diffraction limit and to control nanoscale objects in the fields of nanophotonics, super-resolution and plasmonics.
Lecturer, University of the Western Cape Contract lecturer of human anatomy and physiology at the University of the Western Cape in addition to a researcher at the Comparative Spermatology Laboratory in spermatology
Research Fellow in International Development, Tufts University Seth Owusu-Mante is a research fellow at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. His areas of expertise include international development and environmental policy, and global governance and international organizations. He was the president and founder of Young Diplomats of Ghana; managing editor of the Diplomatic Times in Accra, Ghana; and former director of SDGs Policy Advocacy, International Perspective for Policy and Governance (IPPG), in Accra.
