Conference Speakers

I am a Professor of Pediatrics, Biomedical Sciences, and Developmental and Stem Cell Biology at UCSF. My research laboratory studies mechanisms whereby hypoxia signaling pathways regulate normal development, contribute to the origins of pregnancy complications, and drive disease processes such as pulmonary hypertension and retinopathy of prematurity in newborn infants. Additionally, I am a co-founder of the Initiative for Pediatric Drug and Device Development (www.ipd3.org), a multi-institutional collaborative comprised of leaders in pediatrics and pharmaceutical sciences that functions as a “one-stop-shop” to advance drug and device development for pediatric indications. In this capacity, we have been working with non-profit and industry sponsors on multiple fronts, including neurotherapeutics for birth asphyxia, novel oxygen delivery biotherapeutics for treatment of hemorrhagic shock, as well as cardioprotective agents for infants undergoing repair of congenital heart defects.