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Science Day 2025 is here!

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 third scientific meeting, hosted jointly with the Mohn Centre for Children's Health and Wellbeing. This will be an exciting opportunity to showcase your research, network with members of PaeCH and Mohn and to find research collaborators and future supervisors. We are inviting research abstracts for posters and / or oral and flash 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 / Imperial Academic Health Sciences Centre
• Maximum length 300 words (no tables or diagrams please)
• Please highlight an affiliation with at least 1 PaeCH research theme
• Please submit Abstracts to paech@imperial.ac.uk
• Abstract deadline 18 June 2025 5pm
• You will be informed whether your Abstract has been accepted for a poster or spoken presentation by 23 June 2025
• There will be prizes for Winner and Runner Up for best oral presentation / best flash presentation / best poster

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:

PaeCH Travel Award Guidance and Eligibility

PaeCH Travel Award application form 2025

Grant award: Up to £500.  A maximum of 4 awards will be available.  Successful applicants will be informed by 23 June 2025

Winners should be available to attend the Science Day to accept their award in person

Deadline: 18 June 2025 5pm

Further details about the Science Day (afternoon event) and how to register your attendance will be advertised shortly.  If you have any queries /questions about the event or the funding opportunities listed above please do not hesitate to contact the Centre at paech@imperial.ac.uk

Professor Saglani elected as Academy of Medical Sciences Fellow

Sejal Saglani is a Professor of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and Head of the Inflammation, Repair and Development Section at the NHLI. She is also Director of Imperial’s Centre for Paediatrics and Child Health. Her research focuses on childhood respiratory conditions, with a particular emphasis on the early origins and progression of asthma in young children. A key aim of her work is to uncover why only some children who experience wheezing go on to develop asthma, and to identify the biological drivers behind these symptoms. By studying the structural changes that occur in the lungs of affected children—a rare area of research globally—Professor Saglani is working to pinpoint early indicators of lifelong lung damage and find ways to prevent it. Her team also explores how environmental triggers like allergens and pollution contribute to asthma attacks, with the goal of developing new therapies that go beyond symptom management.  

Professor Saglani said: “I am truly honoured and humbled to receive this award. It is recognition of the whole team’s tremendous efforts towards improving the lives of children with asthma.”