Daniel Hardy

Dr. Daniel B. Hardy is a Professor in the Departments of Ob/Gyn and Physiology & Pharmacology at Western University (London, Canada). He is also a Scientist with the Children’s Health Research Institute (CHRI). In 2003, Dr. Hardy received his PhD in Physiology at Western University, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas). Since starting at Western in 2008, Dr. Hardy’s laboratory focuses upon the molecular mechanisms underlying how impaired fetal development can predispose offspring to metabolic deficits in adulthood. Recently his laboratory group has examined how drugs in pregnancy (i.e. cannabinoids, nicotine, and SSRI’s) result in placental insufficiency and adverse cardiometabolic outcomes in the offspring. Dr. Hardy is currently supported by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, and NSERC. In 2011, Dr. Hardy received the Perkin-Elmer Early Career Award by the Perinatal Research Society and in 2014 he was named Children’s Health Research Institute’s Scientist of the Year Award. In 2023, he was recognized with the Dr. Joseph Gilbert Research Contribution of the Year Award, from the Lawson Health Research Institute.