King's College London

The seven successful applicants are all in the School of Mental Health & Psychological Sciences at the IoPPN - six submitted by the Department of Biostatistics & Health Informatics and one submitted by the Department of Psychology. The full details of the successful applicants, their supervisors and projects, are listed below. They will start between September 2024 and March 2025.

NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellowships are designed to support people who are looking to start or advance a career in health and social care research methodology, specifically in one of the following methodological areas:

• Medical statistics
• Health economics
• Clinical trial design
• Operational research
• Modelling
• Bioinformatics
• Qualitative research
• Mixed methods
• Epidemiological methods

Department of Biostatistics & Health Informatics

Levente Horvath will be attending the Applied Statistical Modelling & Health Informatics MSc at the Department of Biostatistics & Health Informatics. He will be also developing a tool for assessing misophonia in young people.

Supervised by: Dr Silia Vitoratou

Lilla Szanto will be attending numerous training courses in models used in psychometrics and she will join the Psychometrics and Measurement Lab as a research assistant.

Supervised by: Dr Silia Vitoratou

Mandegarsadat (Mandy) Miresmaeili will be attending the Applied Statistical Modelling & Health Informatics MSc. She will be analysing large-scale genetic datasets to study the incomplete penetrance of pathogenic variants in Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Supervised by: Dr Alfredo Iacoangeli

Nabila Naeem will be attending the Applied Statistical Modelling & Health Informatics MSc. She will be developing machine learning methods to predict Inflammatory Bowel Disease outcomes.

Supervised by: Dr Raquel Iniesta

Department of Biostatistics & Health Informatics and the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine

Katherine Phillips will be completing the Evidence-Based Healthcare (Medical Statistics) MSc at the University of Oxford alongside attending several additional courses in clinical trial design. She will also be continuing her work as a research assistant at King’s for several clinical trials in mental health.

Supervised by: Professor Abdel Douiri and Professor Richard Emsley

Department of Biostatistics & Health Informatics and the Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre

Eve Bolland will be completing several courses in clinical trial design, including modules from the Applied Statistical Modelling & Health Informatics MSc. She will also be assisting in a clinical trial investigating a novel therapeutic for Alzheimer's Disease.

Supervised by: Dr Grainne McLoughlin and Professor Richard Emsley

Department of Psychology and the Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre

Kealan Forristal will be analysing large-scale datasets to study the impact of cardiovascular disease on mental health, aiming to identify potential intervention targets. He will be completing the MSc in Applied Statistical Modelling & Health Informatics.

Supervised by: Dr Moritz Herle and Dr Helena Zavos