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Birth, Development, and Health

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Manish Prasad Gupta
Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital
2
M. Austin Argentieri
Broad Institute
3
Jinchi Xie
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
4
Ayele Argaw-Denboba
Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics
5
Cornelia Wagner
University of Fribourg
6
Verónica Miguel
Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research
7
Laura Pritschet
Women's Health Initiative
8
Reem Waziry
Columbia University
9
Lu Mu
Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital
10
Anna Sijtsma
University Medical Center Groningen

Papers

1
Review on Childhood Obesity: Discussing Effects of Gestational Age at Birth and Spotting Association of Postterm Birth with Childhood Obesity
International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology (IJISRT)|2024
363 cit.
2
Proteomic aging clock predicts mortality and risk of common age-related diseases in diverse populations
Nature Medicine|2024
281 cit.
3
Integrating the environmental and genetic architectures of aging and mortality
Nature Medicine|2025
160 cit.
4
Publication in Nature (2024) [138 citations, W4396544402]
Nature|2024
138 cit.
5
Life course epidemiology and public health
The Lancet Public Health|2024
136 cit.
6
Neuroanatomical changes observed over the course of a human pregnancy
Nature Neuroscience|2024
126 cit.
7
Mitochondrial ROS connects P2X7-mediated Ca2+ influx with IL-1α release by monocytes upon chronic tissue damage
Kidney International|2025
6 cit.
8
Vascular-related biological stress, DNA methylation, allostatic load and domain-specific cognition: an integrated machine learning and causal inference approach
BMC Neurology|2025
2 cit.
9
Publication in Science (2025) [1 citation, W4411983892]
Science|2025
1 cit.
10
Publication in Kidney International (2024) [W4398132069]
Kidney International|2024
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Daniel J. Benjamin
University of California, Los Angeles
2
Aaron Alexander‐Bloch
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3
Jakob Seidlitz
California University of Pennsylvania
4
Rais Rais
Tadulako University
5
Valentina Duque
University of Technology Sydney
6
Majid Ezzati
Imperial College London
7
Alexander I. Young
University of California, Los Angeles
8
Paulina A. Latos
Medical University of Vienna
9
Chengquan Tan
South China Agricultural University
10
Amelia M. Schaub
University of Florida

Papers

1
Brain charts for the human lifespan
Nature|2022
1.8k cit.
2
Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals
Nature Genetics|2022
689 cit.
3
<i>Lachnospiraceae</i> -derived butyrate mediates protection of high fermentable fiber against placental inflammation in gestational diabetes mellitus
Science Advances|2023
153 cit.
4
Mendelian imputation of parental genotypes improves estimates of direct genetic effects
Nature Genetics|2022
120 cit.
5
In utero exposure to the Great Depression is reflected in late-life epigenetic aging signatures
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2022
61 cit.
6
Copy Number Variant Risk Scores Associated With Cognition, Psychopathology, and Brain Structure in Youths in the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort
JAMA Psychiatry|2022
43 cit.
7
Coal use, air pollution, and student performance
Journal of Public Economics|2022
34 cit.
8
Brain Growth Charts for Quantitative Analysis of Pediatric Clinical Brain MRI Scans with Limited Imaging Pathology
Radiology|2023
26 cit.
9
Dietary fibers with low hydration properties exacerbate diarrhea and impair intestinal health and nutrient digestibility in weaned piglets
Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology/Journal of animal science and biotechnology|2022
25 cit.
10
Deciphering the functional specialization of whole-brain spatiomolecular gradients in the adult brain
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2024
24 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Mark Petticrew
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2
William H. Dietz
George Washington University
3
G. C. Fahey
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
4
Steve Horvath
University of California, Los Angeles
5
S. Ananth Karumanchi
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
6
George Davey Smith
University of Bristol
7
Shah Ebrahim
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
8
Gary Ruvkun
Harvard University
9
David J.P. Barker
Southampton General Hospital
10
Johan G. Eriksson
National University of Singapore

Papers

1
WGCNA: an R package for weighted correlation network analysis
BMC Bioinformatics|2008
29.1k cit.
2
Developing and evaluating complex interventions: the new Medical Research Council guidance
BMJ|2008
11.4k cit.
3
AIN-93 Purified Diets for Laboratory Rodents: Final Report of the American Institute of Nutrition Ad Hoc Writing Committee on the Reformulation of the AIN-76A Rodent Diet
Journal of Nutrition|1993
8.7k cit.
4
DNA methylation age of human tissues and cell types
Genome biology|2013
7.3k cit.
5
Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome Among US Adults
JAMA|2002
6.7k cit.
6
‘Mendelian randomization’: can genetic epidemiology contribute to understanding environmental determinants of disease?*
International Journal of Epidemiology|2003
6.4k cit.
7
A General Framework for Weighted Gene Co-Expression Network Analysis
Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology|2005
6k cit.
8
Mendelian randomization: Using genes as instruments for making causal inferences in epidemiology
Statistics in Medicine|2007
5k cit.
9
The 21-nucleotide let-7 RNA regulates developmental timing in Caenorhabditis elegans
Nature|2000
5k cit.
10
Reading Mendelian randomisation studies: a guide, glossary, and checklist for clinicians
BMJ|2018
4.7k cit.

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