NIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre Showcase
Schedule
Wed Feb 09 2022 at 01:30 pm to 05:30 pm
Location
Online | Online, 0
About this Event
This exciting online event will provide an opportunity for our community of researchers, funders, collaborators and external stakeholders to celebrate the NIHR GOSH BRC's research activities and successes from across the last three years.
The event will include research stories and successes from across the BRC, including from some of our early career researches, and will touch on future strategic direction of the themes. It was also showcase some of our patient and public involvement and engagement activities and highlight how the BRC plays a vital role in GOSH as a research hospital.
Programme
Please see below the programme for the showcase. The event will take place via zoom webinar and you can join via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81280871470
Questions & image competition
You can submit questions via https://www.sli.do/ (use the code #GOSHBRCShowcase2022) at any point during the event. We are also holding an image competition, the 3 finalists can be viewed via the following link: bit.ly/3uiEJHJ (copy and paste into browser). Voting for your favourite image will open during the event. This webpage also has a copy of the agenda.
1.30 - 1.35pm - Welcome
Mr Mat Shaw, CEO Great Ormond Street Hospital
1.35 - 1.50pm - GOSH Biomedical Research Centre
Professor Thomas Voit, GOSH BRC Director - GOSH Biomedical Research Centre: Successes and Future Direction"
1.50 - 2.20pm - BRC Theme: Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (Chair: Professor Jane Sowden, BRC Theme Lead)
Professor Paolo De Coppi, BRC Deputy Theme Lead - “Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine theme overview”
Professor Silvia Schievano, Professor of Biomedical Engineering - “GOSH springs for craniofacial surgery”
Dr Conor McCann, Senior Research Fellow and BRC Junior Faculty Co-Lead - “Advancing stem cell therapies for Hirschsprung Disease”
2.20 - 2.25pm - Break
2.25 - 2.45pm - Research hospital - Career Development (Chair: Dr Polly Livermore, Clinical Academic Programme Lead for Nurses and AHPs)
Ms Deepti Chugh, Research Physiotherapist - “Patient and Public Involvement to develop a doctoral research proposal exploring effects of selective dorsal rhizotomy”
Ms Fan Iek Cheng, Pharmacist and BRC Junior Faculty Member - “Personalising medicine for children using pharmacometrics models”
Dr Jennie Chandler, BRC Catalyst Fellow - “How to better treat kidney disease”
2.45 - 3.15pm - BRC Theme - Genes, Stem and Cellular Therapies (Chair: Professor David Long, BRC Deputy Theme Lead)
Professor Paul Gissen, BRC Theme Lead - “Genes, stem and cellular therapies theme overview”
Professor Claire Booth, BRC Deputy Theme Lead - “Transforming the lives of children and families with rare disease - gene therapy for ADA-SCID”
Dr Giorgia Santilli, Associate Professor and BRC Junior Faculty Member - “Genome editing in haematopoietic stem cells for the treatment of primary immunodeficiencies”
3.15 - 3.30pm - Break
3.30 - 4.05pm - BRC Theme - Genomics and Systems Medicine (Chair: Professor Sergi Castellano, BRC Deputy Theme Lead)
Professor Lyn Chitty, BRC Theme Lead - “Genomics and systems medicine theme overview”
Mr Theodoros Xenakis, Research Fellow - “Fighting childhood disease: a cell by cell approach”
Dr Amy McTague, Clinician Scientist Fellow and BRC Junior Faculty Co-Lead - "Epilepsy in children: bedside to bench and back again”
4.05 - 4.25pm - Research Hospital – Applied Child Health Informatics (Chair: Dr Pia Hardelid, BRC Deputy Theme Lead Elect)
Professor Neil Sebire - “Overview of applied child health informatics theme”
Dr Maria Peppa, Data Scientist and BRC Junior Faculty Member - “Rare disease cohorts in administrative data”
4.25 - 4.30pm - Break
4.30 - 5.00pm - BRC Theme - Advancing Novel Therapies (Chair: Dr Karin Straathof, BRC Deputy Theme Lead)
Professor Francesco Muntoni, BRC Theme Lead - “Advancing novel therapies: learning from rare childhood disorders”
Professor Helen Cross, BRC Deputy Theme Lead - “Novel therapies for childhood epilepsies”
Dr Virginie Mariot, Research Associate - “AAV based therapy for cardiomyopathies”
5.00 - 5.25pm - Research Hospital : COVID-19 (Chair: Dr Jenny Rivers, Deputy Director of Research and Innovation, GOSH)
Professor Judy Breuer, Professor of Virology - “COG-UK Hospital onset COVID Infection (HOCI) study”
Dr Giovanni Giobbe, Research Associate and BRC Junior Faculty Member - “SARS-CoV-2 infection and replication in human gastric organoids”
Ms Helen Ashton, Advanced Nurse Practitioner - “The role of the research Advanced Nurse Practitioner”
5.25pm - Image Competition Winner Announcement – A Moment of Research 2021
Professor Ros Smyth, UCL Institute of Child Health Director
5.30pm - Closing Remarks
Professor Ros Smyth, UCL Institute of Child Health Director
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Accessibility
We aim to make our events as inclusive as possible so if you have any accessibility requirements or enquiries please contact the NIHR GOSH BRC, [email protected] If you could contact us allowing for as much time as possible before the event we will be able to ensure where required the appropriate measures are taken. Closed captioning will be available for the event - details of this will be announced at the start.
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