Dr David Howard obtained a PhD from the University of Edinburgh before joining King’s College London as a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2019. He was subsequently awarded an MRC Career Development Award to start his own research group in 2024 with the aim of improving our understanding of depression.

One in six people will suffer from depression during their lifetime. However, women are twice as likely to have depression compared to men. There are likely to be a number of reasons for this difference, although we don't yet fully understand them. Dr Howard's research examines sex differences in depression using genetics, epigenetic, metabolomic, and proteomic data applying a variety of statistical and machine learning based approaches.

Dr Howard's collaborates internationally with leading research institutions and organizations such as the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, McGill University, Queen Mary University of London, and Linköping University enabling him to work internationally at the cutting edge of psychiatric research.

www.drhoward.co.uk

Research interests

• Depression
• Mental Health
• Genetics
• Epigenetics

Teaching

• Genetic Variation module for the Developmental Psychology & Psychopathology MSc

Expertise and public engagement

• Communications Manager for the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics
• Voted winner of the Genes Zone in “I’m a Scientist, get me out of here”
• Demystifying Academia outreach program