Richard Saffery ESA-SRB Conference 2015

Richard Saffery

Professor Richard Saffery (BSc, PhD, Grad Dip Law (IP)) is a Molecular and Cellular biologist and Principal Research Fellow at MCRI. He is also Deputy Director (Biosciences) for the Generation Victoria (GenV) study currently recruiting upto 100,000 families at birth. His 'Early Origins of Chronic Disease' agenda spans pregnancy to adolescence and includes conditions such as childhood allergy, obesity and predictors of adult cardiovascular health and diabetes. Dr Saffery has over 350 publications in the field of early life programming and epigenetics. This includes novel discoveries on the factors that regulate the early life human epigenome and the role epigenetics in childhood allergy and immune development. His team have an overarching goal to understand how the modern environment interacts with underlying genetic variation to impact health, particularly in early life. Dr Saffery has over 350 publications in the field of early life programming and epigenetics. This includes novel discoveries on the factors that regulate the early life human epigenome and the role epigenetics in childhood allergy and immune development. His team have an overarching goal to understand how the modern environment interacts with underlying genetic variation to impact health, particularly in early life.