Professor Cynthia H.Y. Fu MD, MSc, PhD

Cynthia Fu is Professor of Affective Neuroscience and Psychotherapy in the Centre for Affective Disorders in the Department of Psychological Medicine in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in the National Affective Disorders Tertiary Clinic and OPTIMA Bipolar Disorders Service.

Professor Fu's research centres on identifying biomarkers to improve classification in mood disorders and to predict treatment response at the individual level and the development of innovative treatments. Their COORDINATE-MDD consortium is leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify biomarkers and predictors of treatment response from complex multidimensional neuroimaging data sets. In the development of novel treatments grounded in mechanistic understanding, she has been leading clinical trials of neuromodulation treatments with the integration of psychoanalytic perspectives and neuroscience for personalised treatment approaches.

She has received research grant funding from National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), National Institute of Mental Health (USA), Medical Research Council, Rosetrees Trust, Wellcome Trust, Baszucki Brain Research Milken Institute, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (NARSAD), International Psychoanalytical Association.

Research Interests

• Biomarkers
• Treatment Prediction
• Artificial Intelligence
• Neuromodulation
• Psychoanalysis

Education

Professor Fu is the Programme Lead for the MSc in Clinical Psychotherapy.

Expertise and Public Engagement

Professor Fu is Section Editor for the journal, Brain Research Bulletin, and is a member of the British Association for Psychopharmacology and Institute of Psychoanalysis, British Psychoanalytical Society.