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Science Day
Science Day - Thursday 4 July 2024
The Centre of Paediatrics and Child Health is delighted to invite everyone involved in caring for children and young people and / or involved in child health research to our second scientific meeting. This will be an exciting opportunity to showcase your research, network with members of PaeCH and to find research collaborators and future supervisors. We are inviting research Abstracts for posters and / or oral presentations from all clinical, non-clinical, basic and translational scientists and clinicians.
Details for Abstract submission:
- All Abstracts must be related to Child Health Research undertaken at Imperial College London / ICHT / West London Children’s Healthcare Alliance
- Maximum length 300 words
- Please highlight an affiliation with at least 1 PaeCH research theme
- Please submit Abstracts to paech@imperial.ac.uk
- Abstract deadline 10 June 2024 5pm
- You will be informed whether your Abstract has been accepted for a poster or spoken presentation by 21 June 2024
- There will be a prize for best oral presentation and runner-up and best poster and runner-up
Pump Priming grants for child health researchers 2024 (up to £5k each)
PaeCH is delighted to offer small grants to its members that will kickstart research projects and enable generation of data that will help towards publications and submission of larger collaborative Centre grants. We will fund projects that incorporate novel ideas in basic, clinical or translational science with the aim of being able to generate further, more substantial funding from major funders. All projects must focus on child health research and have the aim of improving and transforming children’s health and wellbeing. We strongly encourage project ideas that are cross-disciplinary and incorporate at least two of the PaeCH themes, and where possible incorporate PaeCH cross-cutting themes.
Further details on guidance/eligibility criteria and an application form can be found here Andrew Bush Pump Prime Grant 2024 Guidance and Eligibility Andrew Bush Pump Prime Grant 2024 Application Form
Grant award: 4 x £5,000 Deadline: 10 June 2024 5pm
PaeCH Early Career Researcher Travel Awards (up to £500)
The travel awards are up to £500 each and are designed to enable early-career clinical and non-clinical researchers working in child health research to attend a national or international scientific meeting. All applicants must be actively involved in the research and be the presenting author of an abstract that has been accepted for presentation at the meeting.
Further details on guidance/eligibility criteria and an application form can be found here PaeCH Travel Award Guidance and Eligibility 2024 PaeCH Travel Award application form 2024
Grant award: Up to £500 Deadline: 10 June 2024 5pm
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Turning the tide - The First Anita Simonds symposium
Respiratory management of neuromuscular patients in the era of new treatments
Turning the tide - The First Anita Simonds symposium
Respiratory management of neuromuscular patients in the era of new treatments
Respiratory management of neuromuscular patients in the era of new treatments
Generation Victoria (GenV) Professor Melissa Wake
Generation Victoria (GenV) Professor Melissa Wake
2nd Anniversary Symposium
Centre anniversary symposium
An afternoon of lectures to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the Centre
Adolescent Public Health Research
Adolescent Public Health Research
PaeCH Infection and Global Health webinar
PaeCH Infection and Global Health webinar
Early Intervention and follow up of chronic lung disease
Early Intervention and follow up of chronic lung disease
On 23 February 2023 members of the Neonatal team at Imperial College / Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust delivered a series of lectures on the theme of "Creating Specialised Regional Service for Extremely preterm infants - Early Intervention and follow up of chronic lung disease"
Centre Launch Event
Launch Event November 2020
The Centre officially launched in November 2020 with an online symposium.
Blood, Sex and Ignorance: an education
Inaugural lecture - Blood, Sex and Ignorance: an education
Professor Gareth Tudor-Williams uses his inaugural to tell the story of three decades of paediatric HIV research including his current work with WHO and UNICEF.
Global Health Seminar
Global Health Seminar
Seminar to showcase current research activity within the Global Health research theme
The Changing Landscape of Paediatric Infectious Disease
The Changing Landscape of Paediatric Infectious Disease
Symposium to highlight work of the Infectious Disease research theme
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Progression from M.tuberculosis infection to TB disease
Progression from M.tuberculosis infection to TB disease
Guest lecture by Dr Thomas Scriba
Infection and Global Health
Infection and Global Health
Infection and Global Health Joint Webinar
What's the point of an academic general paediatrician?
What's the point of an academic general paediatrician?
Dougal Hargreaves discusses the need to join up data and research agendas between prevention/reactive services, physical/mental health, and health/education/social care sectors.
Immunology - from pregnancy to preschoolers
Immunology - from pregnancy to preschoolers
Topics discussed include the immunology of the maternal-fetal interface in pregnancy, antibody transfer across the placenta, new strategies to control RSV and development of the immune system in early life.
Kawasaki Disease - Progress & Challenges in 2023
Kawasaki Disease - Progress & Challenges in 2023
On 30 June 2023 PaeCH hosted a special symposium forProfessor Jane Burns and Dr John Gordon to discuss the advances and challenges for Kawasaki disease in 2023
The Melbourne Children’s LifeCourse Initiative
The Melbourne Children’s LifeCourse Initiative: A Treasure Trove of Cohorts for Understanding Health
The Melbourne Children’s Campus is a global leader in longitudinal and life course data. LifeCourse serves as a collaborative hub encompassing over 20 core longitudinal cohort studies, spanning conception to adulthood, and involving over 40,000 participants. These studies offer extensive data collection, including biosamples, imaging, and linkage to administrative data. This presentation will showcase how researchers can harness this vast data repository to address a wide range of questions crucial to understanding early life health and its impact throughout the life span. By utilising data from multiple cohort studies, researchers can benefit from further advantages such as replication of findings, improved precision in estimation, and exploration of similarities across diverse societal contexts and developmental periods. The presentation will offer illustrative examples of multi-cohort approaches, showcasing the practical benefits and challenges of these methodologies.
Malaria: from toxic gas to "bad air"
Malaria: from toxic gas to "bad air"
Malaria: from toxic gas to "bad air" - Inaugural lecture from Professor Cunnington talking about his latest research
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Kindness in Healthcare
Bob Klaber delivers the PaeCH Christmas Lecture "Kindness in Healthcare"
Bob Klaber delivers the PaeCH Christmas Lecture "Kindness in Healthcare"
Genomics, Precision Medicine and Bioinformatics
The applications of bioinformatics and data science to current challenges in Paediatrics
The applications of bioinformatics and data science to current challenges in Paediatrics including prognosis, diagnostics and understanding mechanisms of disease
Environmental Exposures and Public Health
Environmental Exposures and Public Health
Benjamin Barratt and Diana Varden present their findings for this Mohn/PaeCH seminar