Delegates

Nargis Akter works as a Project Researcher in the Brain/MINDS Beyond Promotion and Support Office, Japan. At her position, she is responsible for the administrative works of the Brain/MINDS Beyond Program (AMED), including the support of the IBI-related activities of Japan. She received her Ph. D. from Nagoya University (2018), where her study focused on the input-dependent expression of ion channel in the neurons of the avian auditory nucleus.

Rachel A. Ankeny is Professor of History and Philosophy, and Deputy Dean Research in the Faculty of Arts, at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Her expertise crosses history/philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences, bioethics, public understanding of science, and science policy. Among her ongoing research interests is choice and use of animal models in the neurosciences.

Dr. Toshiyuki Araki M.D., Ph.D. obtained his M.D. from Osaka University Medical School in Japan in 1989. He was awarded his Ph.D. from Osaka University Medical School in 1994. He has been the director of the Department of Peripheral Nervous System Research at the National Institute of Neuroscience of the National Center of Neurology of Psychiatry (NCNP) in Japan since 2005. He is also the the Head of the Institutional Review Board for clinical research in the NCNP and the head of the Certified Clinical Research Review Board in NCNP. He was awarded the Yamamura Award from the Graduate School of Osaka University in 1994. He also obtained the Terumo Life Science Foundation Award in 2014. 

Dr. Fumie Arie is the Chief of Ethics Consultation, Education/Training Section, Department of Clinical Research Promotion, Translational Medical Center at National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP), Japan. She is also a technical advisor for Bioethics and Biosafety Office, Life Science Division, Research Promotion Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Dr. Arie completed her M.Med.Sci. at University of Sheffield and Ph.D. at St. Luke’s International University (formerly St. Luke’s College of Nursing). Her career in Bioethics began at the Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University as a researcher and a faculty member (2010-2013). And while in Georgetown University, she has completed Intensive Bioethics Courses at The Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. She was an associate professor, and was engaged in research ethics consulting at the Sophia University Institute of Bioethics.

She currently working extensively on research, practice and education on research ethics and healthcare ethics.

Tasia Asakawa is Director of Development and Communications at IBRO, the International Brain Research Organization, based in Paris, France. She is responsible for partnership development and management; community building, coordination and promotion; and strategic communications, marketing and branding. Her professional experience in these areas spans over two decades in non-profit research, educational and funding organizations with a focus on scientific capacity building, sustainable development and informed policymaking. She has focused especially on supporting economically disadvantaged countries and increasing access to scientific knowledge and training at IBRO and TWAS, the World Academy of Sciences, in Trieste, Italy. Her work is committed to reinforcing and improving human welfare within common ethical and equitable frameworks through collaborative consensus building, the promotion of best practices and effective evidence-based decision-making.

Allyson J. Bennett is a Professor of Psychology and Faculty Director of the Animal Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research centers on how the interplay between early environments, experiences, and genes contributes to individual variation in psychological and physical health across the lifespan. Professor Bennett takes a comparative approach to understand how aspects of physical and social environments affect biobehavioral development. She is particularly focused on applying psychological theory and empirical evidence to inform evolving standards for animal welfare and to support scientific progress. Her expertise in psychological science, coupled with a commitment to science education allow her to contribute to public dialogue and collaboration with diverse stakeholders in evolving standards for humane and responsible research to promote health for people and nonhuman animals. Professor Bennett is a senior editor for the international advocacy group Speaking of Research, co-chair of Supporting Truth about Animal Research, member of the board of trustees for the Scientist’s Center for Animal Welfare, and past president of Division 6 of the American Psychological Association.

Since 2005, Amy Bernard has contributed to the Allen Institute’s growth in both basic research and scientific administration capacities. With over 25 years of expertise in molecular biology and neuroscience, she provides strategic direction for the Allen Institute for Brain Science’s project portfolio. Dr. Bernard received a Bachelor’s degree in Natural Sciences and Mathematics from Bard College and a Ph.D. in Genetics and Biophysics from the University of Colorado. Prior to joining the Allen Institute, Dr. Bernard was a research scientist at the University of Washington. At the Allen Institute, she built and directed laboratory teams in R&D and high-throughput production, and led product development.  She has co-authored over 50 publications in the fields of developmental neuroscience, molecular genetics, cell biology, biochemistry and neuroconnectivity, as part of a team that pioneered big data and high throughput laboratory approaches to open science. She now serves as an advisor to several public and private initiatives, and curates scientific development and innovation opportunities for the Allen Institute for Brain Science. Dr. Bernard is also an advocate for open data sharing via community-centric data standards and collaborative partnerships.

Tamami Fukushi is a visiting researcher at Division of Cerebral Integration in Department of System Neuroscience, National Institute of Physiological Sciences (NIPS). She graduated Nara Women’s University (Physical Education) and Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University (Primatology) then took Ph.D. in Behavioral Science at Department of Psychology, Hokkaido University in March 1999. Defended thesis in the field of neuroscience on an experimental investigation of neural function of non-human primate frontal cortex during visually guided isometric force production task. From 1999 to 2005, she worked for Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota as Postdoctoral/Research Associate for motor control research focusing on human and non-human primates.

She started career in Neuroethics in 2005 when she moved back to Japan at the Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society (RISTEX), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) as a researcher of cohort project called “Japan Children’s Study Group”. She organized the first international symposium of neuroethics in Asian region in July 2006 in Tokyo, and contributed to a dissemination of neuroethics to Japanese and Asian stakeholders. After closing the cohort project in 2009, she experienced science policy at Center for Research and development Strategies (CRDS) in JST and regulatory science at Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA). During those years, she extended her career to science policy making and international cooperation policy in life science and medicines. In June 2017, she joined Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) as policy and information analyst and rebooted Neuroethics activity as a visiting researcher in NIPS from June 2020.

Her current interest of neuroethics is ELSI of advanced technology of neuroscience in the context of science policy and regulatory science. In 2015 She published a book chapter entitled “Social Implementation of Neurodegenerative Disease Research and Neuroethics” In: Wada, K., (ed.) Neurodegenerative Disorders as Systemic Diseases. Pp.295-304, Springer and “Neuroethics in Japan” In: Johnson, L.S.M. and Rommelfanger, K., (eds.) Handbooks in Neuroethics. Routledge Pp.442-456.

Dr. Besley (Cornell, 2006) studies science communication as a way to help the scientific community engage audiences more strategically. He specifically focuses on public perceptions of science and scientists, as well as scientists’ perceptions of the public. He regularly provides scientific groups with guidance and training on strategic public engagement. As a scholar, he has helped author more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles, as well as multiple chapters and reports. He was part of the panel that produced the recent report on science literacy by the National Academies (2017) and has been the primary author of the chapter on the US S&T attitudes and knowledge for the National Science Board’s biennial Science and Engineering Indicators report since 2014. The NSF, the USDA, and a range of different foundations support his work. He is the associate editor for risk communication for Risk Analysis and on the editorial board of Public Understanding of Science, Science Communication, and the Journal of Risk Research. He received the young scholar award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (2013) and became fellow of the AAAS in 2018.

Lise Bitsch, PhD., is a senior Project Manager at the Danish Board of Technology Foundation (DBT), manager for the “Ethics and Society” sub-project in the EU flagship Human Brain Project, and coordinator of the EU co-creation project GoNano (Governing Nanotechnologies through societal engagement). She has a background in Science and Technology Studies (STS). At the DBT, Lise is the team lead for the Foundation’s activities on engagements with publics as well as professional stakeholders. Among other activities she has led public engagement efforts on data protection and privay in research projects with lay participants from across eight countries, and workshops with social scientists, ethicist and legal experts on data protection, dual use and AI.

Professor James Bourne is currently a Group Leader at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute and a NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, and is a member of the NHMRC Research Committee and AHEC. James completed his undergraduate training in Biochemistry (Hons) at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London. Following this, he pursued a PhD in the field of Neuropharmacology, undertaking a joint project with the Ministry of Defence (UK) and King’s College, London. In 2003, James was awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Fellowship, and started to develop an independent area of research in primate cortical development and maturation. In 2006, he received the AW Campbell Award – awarded by the Australian Neuroscience Society for “the best contribution to the neurosciences by a member of the Society over their first five postdoctoral years”. In 2007, James started up his own group in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology and in 2008 received an NHMRC R.D. Wright fellowship, for which he received an NHMRC Achievement Award for the top application. In 2009, James accepted a position at the newly founded Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute at Monash University, where he now leads a group of 13, including Postdoctoral fellows, and students. In 2014 James received a prestigious NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship, and the NHMRC Marshall and Warren Award in 2018 for the most Innovative Project Grant.  Finally, James has published more than 75 original papers and is on the editorial board of Early Human Development, Experimental Brain Research, Nature Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Neuroanatomy and the Journal of Molecular Signaling.

Dr. Bubela is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. Previously she was a Professor in the School of Public Health and Adjunct Professor in the Alberta School of Business at the University of Alberta, Canada. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (elected 2019). She holds a PhD in biology from the University of Sydney and a JD from the University of Alberta. She joined the faculty of the U Alberta in 2004 after clerking for The Honourable Louise Arbour at the Supreme Court of Canada, articling at Field Law LLP in Edmonton, and being called to the bar (Law Society of Alberta) in 2005.   Her research program in intellectual property and health law related to translational biomedical research brings together her legal training and a PhD in biology and expertise in genetics and molecular biology. Her research program focuses on large collaborative science networks in genomics, gene therapy, and stem cell biology, addressing barriers to the effective translation of new technologies. These are varied and include ethical issues, effective communication of risks and benefits among stakeholder groups, commercialization and regulation. She provides advice for Government Health and Science agencies as well as life sciences research communities, and patient organisations. Her research is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canadian Stem Cell Network, Genome Canada, and Alberta Innovates, among others. She co-led research programs on the development of cost-effective personalized medicine and the Alberta Ocular Gene Therapy Team, which is developing novel gene therapies. She has over a hundred publications in law, ethics and science policy journals including Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Cell Stem Cell, PLoS Biology, Trends in Biotechnology, American Journal of Bioethics and Science Translational Medicine.

A/Prof Olivia Carter’s work focuses on understanding how the brain’s natural chemicals control complex behaviors, thoughts and perceptions. After completing a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Queensland in Australia, she worked as a research fellow in the Vision Science Laboratory at Harvard University. A/Prof Carter is currently based in the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne where she heads the Perception and Pharmacology Lab. Her research is focused primarily on understanding the neurobiological mechanisms involved in perception and cognition within both healthy and psychiatric populations. She also has a long-standing interest in the neuroethical issues associated with advances in neuroscientific knowledge and drug/technology development. A/Prof Carter has previously served as the Executive Director of the international Association of the Scientific Study of Consciousness and the President of the Australian Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Jayatri Das is Director of Science Content and Chief Bioscientist at The Franklin Institute and an invited Fellow of the Center for Neuroscience & Society at the University of Pennsylvania. She has led development of the Institute’s two newest permanent exhibitions—Your Brain, a national award-winning exhibit about the neuroscience and psychology of the human brain, and SportsZone—and directs various programming initiatives to advance informal science education about areas of emerging science and their societal impact. She also serves as an advisor to the National Informal STEM Education (NISE) Network. In 2016, she was honored with the American Alliance of Museums’ Nancy Hanks Award for Professional Excellence.

Frédéric Destrebecq is the Executive Director of the European Brain Council since October 2014. In this capacity, he is responsible for providing strategic direction and leadership while managing the day to day operations of EBC and its ongoing relationships with its member associations and other stakeholders, as well as representing the organisation in various European and national forums.

Prior to this position, Fred served the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) as Chief Executive Officer, and previously as Director for European Affairs. Fred holds a Master Degree in Political Science and International Relations from the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). He also studied at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Paris) and University of Wales College (Cardiff), in the framework of the former EU Socrates exchange programme.

Cynthia Forlini, PhD is a Lecturer in Health Ethics and Professionalism at Deakin University’s School of Medicine. I am an interdisciplinary researcher with expertise in the field of neuroethics. My work addresses ethical issues that arise as we redefine the boundaries between treatment, maintenance and, enhancement of cognitive performance. Through my research, I engage with stakeholders using mixed-methods (qualitative and quantitative) approaches. In 2015, I was awarded an Australian research Council Discovery Early Career researcher Award (2015-2017) to develop my research on the neuroethics of cognitive ageing. In addition to my research, I developed and deliver the only neuroethics unit of study in Australia (BMRI5001: neuroethics). I am a member of the Australian Brain Alliance Neuroethics and Responsible Research and Innovation Committee. I chair the Student/Early Career Research Stream for the Australian Association of Bioethics and Health Law. I hold Associate Editor positions with BMC Medical Ethics and Journal of Bioethical Inquiry and have reviewed manuscripts for fifteen journal sin various disciplines (e.g. bioethics, neuroscience, psychology, medicine).

Miyako Fukuda is the Researcher in the Translational Medical Center (TMC) at the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP). She is also a member of Japan Association for Bioethics and Japanese Association of Medical Law.

She started her career in research ethics with research protocol support for protecting human rights of research objects in 2018 in TMC at NCNP after studied Civil Law, especially regarding study on civil law issues between parents and child using Assisted Reproductive Technology at the Graduate School of Tokyo Gakugei University.

Her current interest is to protect properly human rights of research objects in research ethics.

She had the poster session at the University of Nagoya on Research Ethics Education System of NCNP mainly organized and revised by her.

Saskia Hendriks, MD, PhD, is a bioethicist and faculty member of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center. Dr. Hendriks conducts empirical and conceptual research on the ethical, social and legal implications of emerging medical technologies in reproduction and neuroscience.

Dr. Hendriks is also a neuroethics consultant at the Neuroethics Program of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. In this role, Dr. Hendriks contributes to the efforts to integrate neuroethics into the NIH BRAIN Initiative.

Dr. Hendriks obtained her MD-PhD at the University of Amsterdam. She subsequently held a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the NIH.

Karen Herrera-Ferrá works as a mental health clinician in a private hospital in Mexico and founded the Mexican Association of Neuroethics (www.neuroeticamexico.org). She is also an Associate Faculty at the Neuroethics Studies Program at the Pellegrino Center for Clinical at Georgetown University, Washington DC.

On 2016 she developed a project to formally introduce and develop neuroethics in her country according to the neuroscientific and neurotechnological demands of Mexico and globally. Her research focuses on global and cross-cultural neuroethics, a topic yet evermore needed given the relative international ubiquity of neuroscience and neurotechnology and its influence in and across dimensions of mental health and society. Her work studies proactive efforts in developing countries such as Mexico, to include specific domestic medical and ethnological variables (i.e. recognition of indigenous and refugees’ needs, values, philosophies, beliefs and traditions that might shape perceptions of self, others and the world), needed to understand attitudes towards the use -or non use- of neuroscience and neurotechnology in medicine, public mental health and for occupational and life style applications.

Paul Howard-Jones is Professor of Neuroscience and Education at the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, where he leads the MSc (Education) pathway in Neuroscience and Education. Recent experimental research has focused on games-based learning. Prior to his research career, he was a secondary school teacher, then a trainer of teachers and inspector of schools. He was a member of the UK’s Royal Society 2011 working group on Neuroscience and Education and authored one of the first text books in this area (“Introducing Neuroeducational Research” – available in Korean). His new book “Evolution of the Learning Brain” was published in 2018 by Routledge. He is currently seconded to the International Bureau of Education (UNESCO), supporting their international work in incorporating cognitive neuroscience into initial teacher education.

Marcello Ienca is a Research Fellow at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. His research focuses on ethical design and responsible innovation for emerging technologies at the human-machine interface. He has published extensively on the ELSI of neurotechnology and artificial intelligence, big data trends in neuroscience and biomedicine, digital health and cognitive assistance for people with intellectual disabilities. Ienca has received several awards for social responsibility in science and technology such as the Prize Pato de Carvalho (Portugal), the Sonia Lupien Award (Canada) and the Paul Schotsmans Prize from the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME). Ienca is the current coordinator of the Swiss Network of Neuroscience, Ethics and Law (SNNEL) and a member of the Steering Group on Neurotechnology and Society of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).  

Dr. Illes is Professor of Neurology and Canada Research Chair in Neuroethics at UBC. She is Director of Neuroethics Canada, and faculty in the Centre for Brain Health and at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. She received her PhD in Hearing and Speech Sciences, and in Neuropsychology at Stanford University, and became one of the pioneers of the field of neuroethics formally established in early 2000.

Dr. Illes’ research, teaching and outreach initiatives are devoted to ethical, legal, social and policy challenges at the intersection of the brain sciences and biomedical ethics. She has made groundbreaking contributions to neuroethical thinking for neuroscience discovery and clinical translation specifically in the areas of neuromodulation, neuropsychiatry, neurodevelopment, and neurodegeneration, and more broadly to entrepreneurship and the commercialization of health care.

In addition to her primary appointment in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC, Dr. Illes also holds associate appointments in Population and Public Health and in Journalism at UBC, and in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA. She is Vice Chair of the Standing Committee on Ethics of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and Vice Chair of the CIHR’s Internal Advisory Board of the Institute on Neuroscience, Mental Health and Addiction.  

Dr. Illes received the Order of Canada, the country’s highest civilian award, in December 2017. She was elected to the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2011, Royal Society of Canada in 2012, and to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Division of Neuroscience) in 2013. She is immediate past President of the International Neuroethics Society, founded in 2006. She is also an elected member of the International Women’s Forum. Her latest books, a series on Developments in Neuroethics and Bioethics, feature pain, global mental health, and do-it-yourself brain devices.

Dr. Illes writes frequently for the Vancouver Sun and Canada’s The Conversation Canada, and hosts community outreach about challenging ethical problems involving biomedicine and the brain throughout BC and across the country.

L. Syd M Johnson, PhD is a philosopher/bioethicist/neuroethicist and Associate Professor at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University. She’s an Associate Editor for Neuroethics, a member of the NIH BRAIN Initiative Neuroethics Working Group, and the co-founder of the American Society for Bioethics + Humanities Animal Bioethics Affinity Group. Dr. Johnson’s books include The Routledge Handbook of Neuroethics (with Karen Rommelfanger), Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers’ Brief, and a forthcoming edited book Neuroethics and Nonhuman Animals (Springer). Her research focuses on ethical issues related to animal ethics, research ethics, and brain injuries, including sport-related neurotrauma, brain death, and disorders of consciousness. Her interest in all things with brains includes every kind of critter, zombies, and robots.

Dr. So Yoon Kim, Ph.D. is a professor of health law and ethics at Yonsei University College of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea. She was awarded her Ph.D. in Public Health by Yonsei University Graduate School in 2002. She has been the director of medical law and ethics at Yonsei University College of Medicine since 2014. She is also currently the director of the Asian Institute for Bioethics and Health Law and a member of the Health and Welfare Ministry’s Regulatory Review Committee.

Lars Klüver is director at the Danish Board of Technology Foundation (Fonden Teknologirådet, DBT). He has more than 30 years of experience in technology assessment (TA), foresight and Responsible Research and Innovation. His main focus has been on providing policy advice and solutions to societal challenges through engagement involving representatives from societal groups, such as experts, stakeholders, politicians, citizens, users, etc. The DBT has been a front-runner within policy analysis that involves interactivity and participation, and the toolbox of the DBT includes a wide range of methods, which have been developed or adapted to policy-oriented Technology Assessment by the Board. Lars Klüver has been active in policy analysis and participation research, for example as coordinator of the EUROPTA, CIVISTI, DESSI, PACITA, Engage2020, CIMULACT and ECO2 projects, and he was the initiator of the “World Wide Views” initiative – a global citizen participation method, which has engaged more than 80 countries and is directed towards policymaking across geographic borders. Lars is leading the Stakeholder and Citizen Engagement activities in the Ethics and Society sub-project of the Human Brain Project.

Professor Joan Leach (BA Hons, BSc, MA, PhD) is Director of the Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science at The Australian National University.  She is the Chair of the National Committee for History and Philosophy of Science at the Australian Academy of Science, and former President of Australian Science Communicators.

Her research centres on public engagement with science, medicine and technology and she has been active in the Australian government’s recent initiatives toward ‘Inspiring Australia’. She is currently researching the role of popular science in the globalization of science since the 1960s, a project funded by the Australian Research Council. She has published extensively about science communication, including Rhetorical Questions of Health and Medicine, and was editor of the International journal, Social Epistemology .

Professor Leach has won numerous academic awards for her research and community engagement, including being a Science Journalism Laureate at Purdue University (USA). While remaining transfixed by science, she advocates for better science communication that critically examines the social impacts of science, technology and biomedicine.

Ilhak Lee, M.D., Ph.D.

i.g.) He is currently an Assistant Professor of the DEPARTMENT of Medical Humanties and Social Sciences at the College of Medicine, Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. He  received his Ph.D. in the medical ethics from the Yonsei University, in Korea, He is a current board member of the Korean Association for Medical Ethics, and Korean Association for Medical Law, and served on the editor in Korean Journal of Medical Ethics. His research interests have focused on studies of the ethics of the end of life care, the ethics of research, esp. on the risk perception and scientific literacy. More recently he concentrates on developing the bioethics research methodology, which will connect the philosophical theories to practical guidance for researchers.

Inyoung Lee is a Professor at Hongik University, College of Law. She received B.A, M.A, and Ph.D. degrees in Criminal Law in 1983, 1986 and 1994 at Yonsei University. She was a member of the Korean National Bioethics Committee and the former president of the Korean Bioethics Society. She is a Chief of Editorial Board of Korea National Institute for Bioethics Policy. She is one of the organizers of the Korean Neuroethics Study Group established in 2017. She has broad interest in the ethical, legal and social implications of neuroscience. This includes the impact of neuroscientific research on human, neurogenetics, brain injury, adolescence brain science, and neurological evidence.

Megumi Maruyama is a Project Associate Professor at National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS). She graduated Osaka University in 1998. She obtained Master degree at Graduate school of Medicine, Osaka University in 2000. She became Assistant Professor at Department of Environmental Physiology, School of Medicine, Shimane University in 2002. She obtained her PhD in 2007 from Shimane University, for a thesis about “Neural regulatory mechanism of body temperature in rats”. In 2009, she was a Research Fellow at National Institute for Basic Biology (NIBB). In 2010, she was Project Assistant Professor at NIPS. Since 2013, she is Project Associate Professor in NIPS and working on administrator of Research Enhancement Strategy Office, NIPS. She also holds the post of Brain/MINDS Beyond Promotion and Support Office of Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) as core organization staff. She is also Program Officer of Strategic Research Program for Brain Sciences (SRPBS) to supervise program.

Agnes McMahon joined The Kavli Foundation in August 2018 as the inaugural Science Program Fellow. Prior to her work at the Foundation, she served as the Program Manager for the ENIGMA Consortium, an international collaboration in neuroimaging and genomics. Agnes began her career with a B.S. from the University of North Carolina and a post-baccalaureate fellowship in functional neuroimaging at the Duke-UNC Brain Imaging and Analysis Center. She then earned her M.S. in Clinical Science, with a focus on structural neuroimaging, from the University of Colorado and subsequently joined the Cognitive Neurology division at Johns Hopkins University.  In Agnes’s current role with The Kavli Foundation, she provides coordination and support for the International Brain Initiative.  She also contributes to the Foundation’s broader neuroscience efforts, including activities for the US BRAIN Initiative.

Kentaro Morita is a psychiatrist and researcher at the University of Tokyo Hospital in Tokyo, Japan. He obtained his medical degree in 2010 at Nippon Medical School and has completed his medical training mainly at the University of Tokyo Hospital. After receiving his PH.D. from the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, he is now an Assistant Professor at the Psychiatric Day care of the University of Tokyo Hospital. He currently practices in adolescence and adult psychiatry giving care in both Japanese and English.

Dr. Morita is also a researcher in the field of psychiatry with primary interest in mental illnesses such as Schizophrenia. His research is mainly based on neurobiological aspects of mental illness, such as neurophysiology and neuroimaging, with a future goal of applying these neurobiological methods to rehabilitation and more “recovery-informed” treatment options. He continues his research at the University of Tokyo, mainly within the Brain/MINDS and Brain/MINDS Beyond projects. He is also critically involved in research ethics of the Brain/MINDS projects and has been participating in the Global Neuroethics Summint since 2018.

Eisuke Nakazawa, PhD, is a lecturer in the Department of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine (Japan). He received his doctorate in in Philosophy of Science from the University of Tokyo. His current research area is Biomedical Ethics, Neuroethics and Philosophy of Science. His recent publications include Sadato N, Morita K, Kasai K, Fukushi T, Nakamura K, Nakazawa E, Okano H, Okabe S. 2019. Neuroethical issues of the Brain/MINDS project of Japan. Neuron 101 (February 6, 2019):385–389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2019.01.006. 32. And Ino Y, Nakazawa E, Akabayashi A. 2019. Pro-immigration policies should be promoted conditionally to ensure that immigrant health is ensured. The Lancet. In print.

Dr. Cliodhna O’Connor is a social psychologist and Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology, University College Dublin. Her research investigates how people engage with scientific information and the implications this has for social attitudes, self-concept and common-sense beliefs. She is particularly interested in how scientific and clinical classifications influence social identity and intergroup relations, and has explored these links in a range of social contexts including gender stereotypes and psychiatric diagnosis. She currently holds a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (2017-2019), which supports a mixed-methods research programme exploring the phenomenon of diagnostic transitions in youth mental healthcare. Prior to joining UCD, she was a Lecturer in the Maynooth University Department of Psychology. Her postdoctoral research was completed in the Lucena Clinic and University College London, where she was Co-Investigator on the project ‘The Brain in the Public Sphere’, funded by the Faraday Institute at St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge. She has held visiting positions in Princeton University Department of Psychology and UCD School of Medicine. She holds degrees from Trinity College Dublin (BA [Hons.] in Psychology), the London School of Economics & Political Science (MSc in Social & Cultural Psychology) and University College London (PhD in Social Psychology).

Mu-ming Poo is the founding and current director of the Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, director of CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, and Paul Licht Distinguished Professor in Biology Emeritus at University of California, Berkeley. He studied physics at Tsinghua University (Taiwan) and received Ph D in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University.  He had served on the faculty of University of California at Irvine, Yale University, Columbia University, and University of California at San Diego, and University of California, Berkeley.  He has made seminal contributions in studying neuronal differentiation, axon guidance and synaptic plasticity.  He is a member of Academia Sinica, US National Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Hong Kong Academy of Science. He had received Ameritec Prize (2001), Docteur Honoris Causa from Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (2003), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2014) and Claude Bernard University of Lyon (2018), P. R. China International Science & Technology Cooperation Award (2005), Qiushi Distinguished Scientist Award (2011), and Gruber Neuroscience Prize (2016).  He is currently an editorial board member of Neuron, Editor of Developmental Neurobiology, and Executive Editor-in-Chief for National Science Review.

Dr. Darrell Porcello received his PhD in Neuroscience from Stanford University. Dr. Porcello manages, designs, and finds funding for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education projects. Currently, he is Co-Investigator of a NASA Science Mission Directorate funded Earth and space science public engagement project of the (U.S.) National Informal STEM Education (NISE) Network and coordinates efforts at the Children’s Creativity Museum (CCM) in San Francisco and other U.S. museum partners. He is part of the team responsible for the Sun, Earth, Universe exhibition and the Explore Science: Earth & Space toolkit, reaching hundreds of museum partner and millions of visitors throughout the U.S. He also works closely with early education specials at CCM to bring new STEM education partnerships and opportunities to the museum in line with its creativity-focused public programming. In his previous role of Chief Technology Officer at University of California, Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS), he grew a small multimedia service group into a successful production house for independent educational technology products with significant impact and millions of active users. He co-founded the popular howtosmile.org digital library, which has offered a robust catalog of high quality & open STEM hands-on activities and value-added services for science museums, afterschool programs, homeschoolers, and other informal science and math education professionals for almost 10 years. He also led development of popular apps at LHS funded by NIH, NSF, and NASA including DIY Sun Science, DIY Human Body, and I Got This: An Interactive Story.

Dr. Khara Ramos serves as Director, Neuroethics Program, and Health Scientist Administrator in the Office of Scientific Liaison (OSL), at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) at NIH. She leads efforts to integrate neuroethics into the NIH BRAIN Initiative, and serves as Executive Secretary of the Neuroethics Working Group of the NIH BRAIN Multi-Council Working Group and co-lead of the trans-NIH BRAIN neuroethics project team. In her role within OSL she works to support a seamless flow of information on NINDS-supported research advances and initiatives to various stakeholders including scientific and academic communities, as well as policy-makers, patients, and the public

Previously, Dr. Ramos worked as Special Assistant to the Deputy Director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), where she served as point person on high profile projects for NIDCR and provided support to the NIDCR Office of the Director regarding policy analysis, communications, program oversight, evaluation activities, strategic planning, and project coordination. She originally moved from academia to federal service via the AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship Program, following a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she studied the role of non-neuronal cells of the central nervous system in chronic pain states and in opioid-induced central sensitization. Dr. Ramos holds a Ph.D. in neurosciences from the University of California, San Diego, and a bachelor’s degree in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University.

Linda J. Richards, PhD, FAA, FAHMS is a Professor of Neuroscience and Deputy Director of the Queensland Brain Institute at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. She is a Fellow of both the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and is a National Health and Medical Research Council Principal Research Fellow. She is President of the Australasian Neuroscience Society and co-chair of the Australian Brain Alliance. Professor Richards is head of the brain development and disorders laboratory at QBI. Her laboratory team strives to understand how the brain forms during development and how these processes are disrupted causing human developmental brain disorders and brain cancer. Professor Richards is a leading expert on the formation of the corpus callosum and is scientific advisor and patron for AusDoCC. In 2015 she co-founded an International Consortium for the Corpus Callosum and Cerebral Connectivity with colleagues from Australia, USA, France and Brazil. The consortium brings together clinicians and scientists working to identify the causes of developmental brain disorders and how best to provide support and care for affected individuals and their families. Professor Richards has received a number of awards and fellowships throughout her career including the Charles Judson Herrick Award from the American Association of Anatomists in 2004 and the Nina Kondelos award from the Australasian Neuroscience Society in 2010. Professor Richards is passionate about the public awareness of science and in 2006 she founded the Australian Brain Bee Challenge, a competition for high school students to learn about the brain. Over 30,000 high school students have participated in the challenge and students from Australia have won the international brain bee competition three times and placed in every event since 2006.

Dr. Sadato is a professor of National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Japan since 1999. After trained as a diagnostic radiologist, he entered into the functional neuroimaging field in 1990. Dr Sadato is interested in understanding the mechanisms of plastic change in the human brain accompanied by learning, sensory deprivation, and development explored by functional MRI. Recently he focuses on the development of social cognition and its correlates. Dr. Sadato has been the chair of the Ethics Committee of The Japan Neuroscience Society since 2008.

Dr. Arleen Salles  is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University, Sweden, and task leader and research collaborator in the Ethics and Society subproject (SP12) of the EU-flagship Human Brain Project. She is the Director of the Neuroethics Program at Centro de Investigaciones Filosoficas in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and member of the organizing committee of the Global Neuroethics Summit series.  She works on a wide range of neuroethical topics, from the nature of the field and the development of a culturally aware neuroethics, to conceptual issues in neurosurgery for psychiatric disorders, neuroimaging and privacy concerns, and ethical and conceptual issues in artificial intelligence. She is currently working on a conceptual analysis of human identity and the self, and the debate over the potential impact of neurotechnologies on human nature.

For more information: http://www.crb.uu.se/staff/arleen-salles/

Reiko Shimizu graduated from Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1993, and Ph.D. degrees in Pediatrics from Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1997.

In 1998, she joined the Department of Pediatrics, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, as an instructor. In 2010, she joined the research Fellow in Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh U.S.A. After that, she belongs to National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP) as Research associate of Clinical Research Support office in 2012, and joined the team of clinical development of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Since 2014, She had worked as medical reviewer of offices of new drug III and vaccines in Pharmaceuticals and Medical Device Agency. Since January 2010, she has been with researcher of clinical research support office and also contribute to office of ethical committee in NCNP. Her current interests include clinical research, medical genetics, pediatric neurology, and regulatory science. She is the member of Japan Paediatric Society, Japan Society of Human Genetics and Japan Paediatric Neurology Society.

Brooke Smith is the Director of Public Engagement with Science at The Kavli Foundation. In this role, she works to strengthen the field of public engagement with science and science communications. Brooke is passionate about scientists engaging with publics, and ensuring those who enable scientists to communicate and engage are supported to do so effectively. Brooke’s expertise and experience are rooted in science, science communication, public engagement of science, public policy, journalism, organizational leadership, and fundraising.  Until late 2016, Brooke served as the inaugural Executive Director of COMPASS, a leading non-profit organization dedicated to empowering scientists to be effective communicators and to engage in the public discourse about the environment. Her experiences stem from work in the federal government, as a consultant to federal agencies, as a University-based communication professional, and in the non-profit sector. Brooke frequently writes and speaks about state and future of the public engagement with science field. She has an M.S. from Oregon State University’s College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences and a bachelor’s degree from Duke University. Brooke serves on the National Caucus for Environmental Legislators Board of Directors, the National Academy of Science’s LabX Advisory Board. She was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Roundtable on the Public Interfaces of Life Sciences, served on the National Board of Directors for the Surfrider Foundation and Portland’s Forest Park Conservancy, and was a Donella Meadows Leadership Fellow.

Stepheni Uh is pursuing her PhD at the University of Cambridge’s MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. She graduated from Emory University with degrees in Neuroscience and Ethics. As the 2014-15 Bobby Jones Fellow, she completed her MPhil in Behavioural and Neural Sciences at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She has also engaged in exploratory and clinical research at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Neuroscience & Society and the Center for Autism Research at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Her primary interests lie in the ethical, social, and legal implications of human neuroscience research as well as the translation of science for policy across diverse populations. Stepheni is currently investigating resilience at the neural, behavioral, as well as cognitive and mental health levels in children growing up in poverty with the hope to better inform interventions and policies targeting positive development and well-being.

Dr. Huimin Wang is a Professor of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at East China Normal University. And she is also a joint faculty at NYU-ECNU Institute of Brain and Cognitive Science at NYU Shanghai.

Dr. Wang graduated from the Medical School of Zhejiang University in 1988 and became a pediatrician in the Children’s Hospital affiliated to the Medical School of Zhejiang University. In 1993 she joined the graduate program of pharmacology at Rutgers University (the State University of New Jersey), where she worked with Dr. Leroy F. Liu, who is a pioneer in DNA topoisomerases, on the role of ATP in chemomodulation of topoisomerase II. During her post-doctoral training at Princeton University with Dr. Joe Z. Tsien, she developed an in vivo protein knock out technology and studied the molecular signals during different stages of memory processes (1999-2004). Prior to join East China Normal University, she worked at Boston University as a visiting Scholar. Her research is mainly focused on understanding the molecular and neuronal mechanisms underlying learning and memory, specifically the retrieval and reconsolidation processes of the long-term memory. Her lab is also working on the immunomodulatory mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Wang has published many research articles in leading journals, including Neuron, Current Biology, Nature Communication and PNAS.

Dr. Wang has been serving as Chair of IRB at ECNU as well as Vice-chair of IRB at NYU Shanghai for many years.

Dr. Samantha White is currently a Science Communication and Coordination Specialist in the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Office of the Director, where she assists efforts to provide a seamless flow of information on NINDS research advances and initiatives to various stakeholders including scientific and academic communities, as well as policy-makers, patients, and the public. Specifically, Dr. White collaborates with leadership, policy, communications, programmatic, and administrative staff across NINDS and the other 9 participating BRAIN Institutes and Centers, as well as the other federal and non-federal organizations that contribute to the BRAIN Initiative. In addition to coordinating meetings, workshops, and scientific conferences like the annual BRAIN Investigators Meeting, the Brain Attack Coalition, and the NINDS Nonprofit Forum, she helps manage website content related to NINDS and BRAIN, developing communications and outreach materials about the progress of BRAIN and other NINDS-sponsored research. Dr. White collaborates with the media relations and legislative/policy staff to prepare materials and presentations related all scientific programs aligned with the NINDS mission. Dr. White began working at NIH as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy fellow after receiving her Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania (2013) and her B.S. in neuroscience and behavioral biology from Emory University (2006). She previously worked as a Science Policy Fellow at Research!America, and she was also the program director for Emerging Leaders in Science and Society, a pilot program hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Ji Hyun Yang graduated from Yonsei University College of Law with a bachelors in law in 2011. She joined the Department of Medical Laws and Ethics at Yonsei University Graduate School in 2015 as Ph.D. candidate. She is also currently a research assistant at the Asian Institute of Bioethics and Health Law where she focuses on Genomic ELSI (genetic privacy and genetic discrimination) and neuroethics and education. She is also a editorial assistant for the Academic Network for Future Medicines and Humanities.