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Send us Fan Mail Kerry Kennedy is President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights ( https://rfkhumanrights.org/ ), a human rights advocacy organization, founded by her mother Ethel Kennedy and named after her father United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, and which is dedicated to creating a more just and peaceful world, working alongside local human rights activists to ensure lasting positiv...

Send us Fan Mail Anita Hazenberg is Director of the Innovation Centre Directorate at INTERPOL ( https://www.interpol.int/en ), also known as the International Criminal Police Organization, an international organization that facilitates worldwide police cooperation and crime control. Headquartered in Lyon, France, INTERPOL is the world's largest international police organization, with six regi...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Anthony Atala, MD, ( https://school.wakehealth.edu/Faculty/A/Anthony-Atala ) is the G. Link Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and the W. Boyce Professor and Chair of Urology. A practicing surgeon and a researcher in the area of regenerative medicine, fifteen applications of technologies developed Dr. Atala’s laboratory have been use...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, DVM, DSc., Ph. D., is the CEO of the Novo Nordisk Foundation ( https://novonordiskfonden.dk/ ), an international foundation with a dual objective: to provide a stable basis for the commercial and research activities conducted by the companies within the Novo Group (of which Novo Nordisk A/S is the largest holdings) and to support scientific, humanitari...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Nikos Loutas, Ph. D. is Head of Data & ArtificiaI Intelligence (AI) Policy at NATO Headquarters in Belgium ( https://www.nato.int/ ), where he has responsibility for policy development, coordination and implementation of NATO's data exploitation policy and AI strategy. Dr. Loutas has his B.S. in Computer Science and his M.S. in Information Systems from Athens Universi...

Send us Fan Mail Atalaya Sergi (https://americorps.gov/leadership/director-americorps-seniors) is Director, AmeriCorps Seniors, AmeriCorps (officially the U.S. Corporation for National and Community Service or CNCS) which is an independent agency of the United States government that engages more than five million Americans in service through it's various programs including AmeriCorps VISTA, A...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Maximina Yun, Ph. D. (https://tu-dresden.de/cmcb/crtd/forschungsgruppen/crtd-forschungsgruppen/yun/group-leader) is Research Group Leader at the Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD), Technical University Dresden, jointly affiliated with Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG). Dr. Yun and her group (https://tu-dresden.de/cmcb/crtd/for...

Send us Fan Mail Iris Van der Veken is Executive Director and Board Member of the Responsible Jewellery Council ( https://www.responsiblejewellery.com ), the world’s leading standard setting organization for the jewellery industry, promoting standards that underpin people’s trust in the worldwide jewellery. Responsible Jewellery Council was founded in 2005 by 14 member organizations including: ABN...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Satchidananda ("Satchin") Panda, is Professor, Regulatory Biology Laboratory, and Rita and Richard Atkinson Chair, at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California ( https://www.salk.edu/scientist/satchidananda-panda/ ), where his research focuses on the circadian regulation of behavior, physiology and metabolism in model organisms and in humans. Dr...

Send us Fan Mail Saeed Al-Mubarak, is Chairman, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE - https://www.spe.org/en/ ), Digital Energy Technical Section (DETS), a member in the advisory Committee of SPE Data Science and Engineering Analytics (DSEA), and served as an industry advisor for Texas A&M University SPE student chapter. He has also served in numerous international technical steering, advisory...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Steven Austad ( https://www.stevenaustad.com/ ) is Distinguished Professor and Protective Life Endowed Chair in Healthy Aging Research, Department of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), and Scientific Director of the American Federation for Aging Research (https://www.uab.edu/cas/biology/people/faculty/steven-n-austad). In addition, Dr. Austad directs the NIH-s...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Bryon Bhagwandin, PhD is Co-Founder and CEO at Recalibrate Solutions ( https://www.recalibratesolutions.com/ ), a company that is focused on empowering physicians to eliminate toxic stress from the lives of children, by monitoring stress system development, with a novel 5-minute, disposable, saliva cortisol test. Dr. Bhagwandin has served as an executive for multiple start-up...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, is the Founder and CEO of Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH - https://ctph.org/ ), a 16-year old non-profit organization, based in Uganda, that promotes conservation by improving the quality of life of people and wildlife to enable them to coexist in and around protected areas in Africa, and she has become one of the leading conservationists and...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Harold 'Sonny' White, is Director, Advanced Research & Development, at the Limitless Space Institute (LSI - https://www.limitlessspace.org/ ), in Houston, Texas. Dr. White has over 25+ years of experience working in the aerospace industry with Boeing, Lockheed Martin, as well as at NASA, and in his current role at the Limitless Space Institute he leads all R&...

Send us Fan Mail Jiren Parikh is the President & CEO of Ghost Robotics ( https://www.ghostrobotics.io/ ), a Philadelphia-based company developing agile, all-weather, unstoppable, autonomous 4-leg robots (also known as Quadrupedal Unmanned Ground Vehicles, or Q-UGVs) which offer superior operability over wheeled and tracked devices on unstructured terrain in rough and demanding environments. Q-...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Jennifer Ogeer, DVM, MSC, MBA is Vice President of Medical Science & Innovation at Antech Diagnostics ( https://www.antechdiagnostics.com/ ), one of the world's largest reference laboratory networks, and a unit of Mars Veterinary Health ( https://www.marsveterinary.com/ ). Dr. Ogeer is also Chair of the Board Of Directors of Veterinarians Without Borders ( https://www...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Madelyn Fernstrom, PhD, CNS ( https://drmadelynfernstrom.com/ ) is a neuroscientist, clinician, health strategist, and NBC broadcast journalist, who serves as Professor of Psychiatry, Epidemiology and Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Founding Director of the UPMC Weight Management Center, Director of the Community Pediatric Weight Management Program...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Mona Flores M.D., is the Global Head of Medical AI, at NVIDIA (https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/author/monaflores/), the American multinational technology company, where she oversees the company’s AI initiatives in medicine and healthcare to bridge the chasm between technology and medicine. Dr. Flores first joined NVIDIA in 2018 with a focus on developing their healthcare ecosyst...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Eric Verdin, MD (https://www.buckinstitute.org/lab/verdin-lab/) is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, as well as Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco (https://bms.ucsf.edu/people/eric-verdin-md). Dr. Verdin's lab currently studies the relationship between aging and the immune system per associated...

Send us Fan Mail  John Wright is the Senior Vice President And Global Head of Food, at Sodexo (https://www.sodexo.com/home.html), the French food services and facilities management company, headquartered outside of Paris. Sodexo employs over 400,000 employees across 80 countries, and serves many sectors, including private corporations, government agencies, schools from preschool through university...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Patrick van der Smagt is Director of ArtificiaI Intelligence Research, Volkswagen AG, and Head of Argmax. AI ( https://argmax.ai/ ), the Volkswagen Group Machine Learning Research Lab, in Munich, focusing on a range of research domains, including probabilistic deep learning for time series modelling, optimal control, reinforcement learning robotics, and quantum machine learnin...

Send us Fan Mail Currently the global beauty industry represents a US$500 billion market, and makeup represents about US$100 billion of that total. Millions of women rely on beauty tutorials for makeup ideas and beauty tips, but find it challenging to recreate professional makeup looks, as they are following makeup application instructions for faces that do not look like their own. As a result, th...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Najat Mokhtar Ph. D. is Deputy Director General, and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA - https://www.iaea.org/ ), an international organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons. Prior to her appointment,...

Send us Fan Mail Mr. Temitayo (Tayo) Erogbogbo, is Global Advocacy Director of MSD for Mothers ( https://www.msdformothers.com/ ), at Merck Sharp & Dohme. Tayo has two decades of combined private sector and international development experience, 13 years of which was spent in the pharmaceutical industry in multiple roles across community relations, government affairs, marketing and sales. As th...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Corinne Leach, PhD, MPH, MS, is a gerontologist, digital health strategist, and behavioral scientist, who serves as the Senior Principal Scientist, Behavioral Research, at the American Cancer Society ( https://www.cancer.org/ ). Dr. Leach, leads survivorship research on behalf of the Population Sciences group, serving as the Principal Investigator of the American Cancer Societ...