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

 

Professor Sejal SaglaniSejal 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.”

 

Past event recordings and presentations

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

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

Generation Victoria (GenV) Professor Melissa Wake

2nd Anniversary Symposium

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

Adolescent Public Health Research

PaeCH Infection and Global Health webinar

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

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

Centre Launch Event

Launch Event November 2020

The Centre officially launched in November 2020 with an online symposium.

Blood, Sex and Ignorance: an education

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

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

The Changing Landscape of Paediatric Infectious Disease

Symposium to highlight work of the Infectious Disease research theme

Progression from M.tuberculosis infection to TB disease

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

Infection and Global Health Joint Webinar

What's the point of an academic general paediatrician?

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

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

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

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"

Malaria: from toxic gas to "bad air" - Inaugural lecture from Professor Cunnington talking about his latest research

Kindness in Healthcare

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

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

Environmental Exposures and Public Health

Benjamin Barratt and Diana Varden present their findings for this Mohn/PaeCH seminar

Tackling childhood obesity - how and why?

Tackling childhood obesity - how and why?

Tackling childhood obesity - how and why?

Professor Franco Sassi discusses childhood obesity

Climate change, restoration, health work at MRC The Gambia

Climate change, restoration, health work at MRC The Gambia

Climate change, restoration, health work at MRC The Gambia