Holly Baines

Program Director, 1kD, Wellcome Leap

Holly Baines, PhD, is a Program Director at Wellcome Leap, a global ARPA for health. She leads a $50M program designed to bring together novel approaches in AI and engineering with neuroscience and developmental psychology to change the way we assess and promote healthy brain development in the first 1000 days of life. She has expertise in developing disruptive strategies and initiatives in the health and life sciences funding sector while at the Wellcome Trust. She has led the development and delivery of multi million pound programs and managed multi-disciplinary teams across a range of areas from mental health to data science. She earned her PhD in Neuroscience and Ageing from Newcastle University, United Kingdom.

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