Alan Handyside , Executive Director, is an Honorary Professor of the School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. He is an internationally-recognised pioneer and expert in human embryology and preimplantation genetics with an extensive research portfolio, track record for innovation in single cell diagnostics (including two patents) and 20 years experience in management in the private IVF sector in the UK. His research interests are in human embryology and preimplantation genetics, including a
Eva Hoffmann , Co-Chair, is a Scientific Director of the clinical consortium ReproUnion and Deputy Director of the Center for Chromosome Stability at the Medical School at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focusses on how genomic instability in human gametes and embryos affect pregnancy loss and congenital disorders. This includes the development of single-cell sequencing and computational methods to probe genomic changes in eggs and tissues.
Rajiv McCoy , Co-Chair, is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at Johns Hopkins University whose research is focused on human genetics and evolution. His lab seeks insight into the genomic basis of variation in human fertility through the development and application of computational and statistical methods. To this end, his work combines diverse datasets and conceptual frameworks from complex trait genetics and evolutionary genomics to gain quantitative perspectives on human reproduction. Pa