IoPPN Research Festival 2024 'Origins and new beginnings'

Full line-up of speakers and topics:

Part 1

Welcome - Professor Matthew Hotopf, Professor Mitul Mehta, Dr Paolo Deluca

Keynote - Professor Edgar Jones - The roots of research excellence at the Maudsley- IoPPN: challenges and turning points

Aneita Pringle - Research culture: what does it even mean?

Dr Leonie Brose - Tobacco addiction and policy research

Professor Ray Chaudhuri - Global health of people with Parkinson’s: an epidemic

Dr Martina Arenella - Immunogenetic underpinnings of autism spectrum conditions

Dr Daniel Martins Long - COVID-19 and the brain: charting origins to illuminate the path towards new beginnings

Dr Megan Earl - Brain and body: what can we learn from the liver

Dr Julia Ouzia - The IoPPN Bullying & Harassment Confidential Advisor Scheme – a brief overview

Dr Dimitar Kostadinov - Organization and dynamics of multiregional circuits for goal-directed behaviour

Dr Dimosthenis Tsapekos - Cognitive impairment in bipolar disorder: should we account for premorbid IQ?

Part 2

Keynote Professor Melanie Abas - Global mental health and the ambition to end HIV/AIDS

Robert Patterson - Research Management: The Professionals

Dr James Badenoch - Biomarkers of neuropsychiatric symptoms in neurodegenerative movement disorders

Dr Cindy Pham - Maternal oxidative stress during pregnancy associated with emotional and behavioural problems in early childhood: implications for foetal programming

Dr Lauren Heathcote - Placebo: friend or foe? New opportunities to ethically harness placebo effects in healthcare

Dr Maria Dolores Villar Martinez - Vestibular migraine – this may be the reason why you’re dizzy

3MT Finalist Misha Bazarov - High Hopes: navigating the cloud of cannabis use disorder (CUD) with mobile health apps

Dr Laura Pellegrini - Exploring development and maturation of human choroid plexus with organoids

Dr Diana Shamsutdinova - Modern approaches to the sample size calculations for developing a clinical prediction model

Dr Udita Iyengar and Dr Eugenia Kravariti - SLaM IoPPN Collaborative (SLIC) project

Dr Matthew Anthony White - From origins to interventions: stem cell models bridge the gap from development to degeneration

Keynote Professor Emily Simonoff - The King’s Maudsley Partnership for Children and Young People- what is it for and what will we do?

NB: Internal and external events with a diversity of speakers are an important mechanism for us at King's to not only share our work and research but to freely exchange and explore ideas. We believe that open and uncensored debate from all sides is one of our core purposes as a university, provided they take place without fear of intimidation and within the framework of the law.

This can mean that events or speakers may present points of view, debate or ideas which some may disagree with or find upsetting, and we acknowledge the depth of feeling from staff and students to some issues.

All IoPPN events adhere to King’s position on Freedom of Expression, and do not allow speech which discriminates based on the Equality Act and other relevant legislation.

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Part 1

Part 2