Prof. Dr. Neil Sebire is a Professor of Paediatric and Developmental Pathology at Great Ormond Street Hospital Institute of Child Health (UCL) London and is also the Chief Research Information Officer and Director of the Digital Research, Informatics, and Virtual Environment unit (GOSHDRIVE). He is a clinical academic with research interests, including complications of pregnancy, diseases of the placenta, and causes of stillbirth and infant death. He is the author of several internationally recognised leading textbooks and more than 600 scientific peer-reviewed papers. His current research and academic interests are focused on the impact of digital technologies on healthcare and related research and, in particular, how routine current and future health data can be used to improve child health.
Prof. Dr. Mathias Gautel is the BHF Professor of Molecular Cardiology at King’s College London, whose research is focused on the contractile structures of heart and skeletal muscles at the atomic and cellular levels to understand the mechanisms of inherited muscle diseases. He obtained his MD from Heidelberg University in 1991. He was then a post-doctoral fellow and visiting team leader (1996–1998) at EMBL Heidelberg, where he worked on his habilitation (MD PhD equivalent) in Biochemistry on titin-based sarcomere assembly at Heidelberg University in 1998. After nine years at EMBL, he was awarded a Heisenberg Fellowship by the German Research Foundation and joined the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, as a group leader. He was appointed as Professor of Molecular Cardiology at King’s College London in 2002, and since 2008, he has held the British Heart Foundation Chair of Molecular Cardiology. He is the Head of the School of Basic and Medical Biosciences at KCL. His research has been supported by UK research councils (MRC, BBSRC), as well as the British Heart Foundation, Wellcome Trust, Leducq Foundation, Volkswagen Foundation, the EU and the European Research Council, and the German Research Foundation DFG. He was awarded the International Society for Heart Research (ISHR) Outstanding Investigator Award in 2009 and was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2010.
Prof. Simon Eaton is a Professor of Paediatric Surgery, Nutrition, and Metabolism at the Developmental Biology & Cancer Department, University College London. He received his Bachelor’s degree at the University of Durham in 1988 and completed his PhD studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1992. His current research interests are centred on the biochemical and metabolic responses to surgery and critical illness in infants and children.
Prof. Dr. Perry Elliott is a Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at University College London and a Senior Investigator at the UK National Institute for Health Research. He is director of the UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science and a consultant cardiologist at St. Bartholomew's Hospital London. He is Chairman of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Heart Academy and past chair of the ESC Council on Cardiovascular Genomics, the ESC Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases, and the Executive Committee for the European Outcomes Research Programme registry on cardiomyopathies. He is an Executive Editor for the European Heart Journal. He studied medicine at St. Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London. After qualifying in 1987, he trained in general medicine, gained membership in the Royal College of Physicians in 1991, and completed his general cardiology training at St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London. He was appointed as Senior Lecturer, first at St. George’s Hospital in 1999 and then at UCL in 2003. He was promoted to Reader in Inherited Cardiac Disease in 2005 and became a full Professor at UCL in 2012. He is a recognised world authority in heart muscle disease. His most important research contributions include gene identification, development and application of risk tools, biomarker discovery, and clinical trials in rare diseases.
