Professor, McGill University

Szyf received his Ph. D from the Hebrew University and did his postdoctoral fellowship in Genetics at Harvard Medical School, joined the department in 1989 and currently holds a James McGill Professorship and GlaxoSmithKline-CIHR Chair in Pharmacology. He is the founding co-director of the Sackler Institute for Epigenetics and Psychobiology at McGill and is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Experience-based Brain and Biological Development program. Szyf has been the founder of the first "Pharma" to develop epigenetic pharmacology "Methylgene Inc." and the first journal ...

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging, Western University

Adrian M. Owen OBE, FRSC, PhD, is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging at the University of Western Ontario, Canada and co-directs the CIFAR Brain, Mind, and Consciousness program. His research combines structural and functional neuroimaging with neuropsychological studies of brain-injured patients. Owen has published over 400 scientific articles and chapters and a best-selling popular science book ‘Into the Gray Zone’. In 2019, he was awarded an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II for services to scientific research.