Adam Lewandowski is an Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Science at the University of Oxford and a British Heart Foundation Research Fellow. He completed his undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Guelph in Canada before moving to the UK where he received his master’s degree in Healthcare Data Informatics at the University of Cambridge and his PhD in Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford funded by a Commonwealth Scholarship. His primary area of research over the past 14 years has centred around understanding cardiovascular disease risk in individuals born preterm through observational studies and clinical trials across different developmental stages.

Prof Deirdre Murray is a Prof of Paediatrics and Consultant Paediatrician in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University College Cork. Prof Murray trained in General Paedaitrics in Dublin before completing a Specialist Registrar Training and Fellowship training in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine in the Bristol Royal Children’s Hopsital, Bristol and the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. Prof Murray then returned to Ireland to complete her PhD in the area of neonatal hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy. Prof Murray has a strong research background in newborn brain injury and developmental assessment. She is a principal investigator in the INFANT (Maternal and Child Health Research Centre (www.infantcentre.ie). Through large international studies she has been working to develop new ways to predict newborn brain injury using continuous multi-channel EEG, blood based biomarkers and early neurological assessment. In 2012 she was awarded a Health Research Board Clinician Scientist Award to study early blood-based biomarkers in hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy, the BiHiVE study. She is the principal investigator of the Cork BASELINE Birth Cohort study (www.baselinestudy.net) which is a collaborative birth cohort study examining early environmental influences of neurocognitive and behavioural outcome. She is the current secretary of the Brain, Development and Imaging Section of the European Society for Paediatric Research.