April 2019 – DoM Staff Blog

Funding successes: April 2019

25 April 2019

*Professor Richard Festenstein was recently awarded funding by the National Institute for Health Research*

Congratulations to all Principal Investigators in the Department who have recently been awarded research grants. Here is our monthly round-up of funding successes. (more…)

Promoting autism awareness in Nigeria

Department of Medicine Communications

25 April 2019

Staff and students at the Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health at University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Dr Ani helped to establish the postgraduate training programme in Child and Adolescent Mental Health now run by the Centre. — Staff and students at the Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Dr Ani (centre) helped to establish the postgraduate training programme in Child and Adolescent Mental Health now run by the Centre. Professor Olayinka Omigbodun, Head of Psychiatry at the University of Ibadan and Director of the Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, is pictured centre-right.

Dr Cornelius Ani, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Department’s Centre for Psychiatry, recently visited Nigeria to promote autism awareness as part of World Autism Day 2019. (more…)

PhD Travel Award winner attends top endocrinology conference

Department of Medicine Communications

25 April 2019

Anastasia Dimakopoulou, one of the latest recipients of the Department of Medicine’s PhD Travel Awards, shares her experience of attending last month’s Endocrine Society Annual Meeting & Expo in New Orleans, USA.

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In profile: Stephanie Hodeib, PhD student

Department of Medicine Communications

25 April 2019

Stephanie Hodeib

In the latest instalment of our monthly profile series, we spoke to Stephanie Hodeib about life as a PhD student in the Department.

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