Professor
Environmental & Genetic Epidemiology Research
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Australia
Associate Professor Jeff Craig works in the Environmental and Genetic Epidemiology Research Group at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and is an Honorary Associate Professor within the Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne. He leads a team of researchers in the Early Life Epigenetics team. He has established a number of longitudinal cohorts including the Peri/postnatal Epigenetic Twins cohort. Associate Professor Craig is also an internationally recognised expert on twins and is Deputy Director of the Australian Twin Registry. His work focuses on epigenetic changes associated with early development and the link between environmental factors, development and disease, in particular cardiovascular disease and neurodevelopment. He aims to apply this work to develop epigenetic biomarkers reflecting past environment and predicting future disease risk. He has 95 peer-reviewed publications including Nature Genetics, Molecular Cell, EMBO J, PNAS, J Cell Science & Genome Research .
pediatrics,Environmental and Genetic Epidemiology