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.
Further details about the Science Day (afternoon event) and how to register your attendance can be found here:
PaeCH / Mohn Science Day 2025 | Events | Imperial College London
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.”
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Exploring meaningful partnerships at Engagement Day 2024Past 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
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
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