Department of Medicine Annual Research Day 2025
Our showcase of the research takes place in the Department of Medicine. This year, our in-person event is held at the Robinson College, providing the perfect setting to connect with colleagues and explore the most recent research from across the department.
Date: Friday, 19 September, 2025 - 09:00 to 18:00
Event location: Robinson College, Grange Road, Cambridge CB3 9AN, UK
Guest speakers
Keynote speaker: Professor Sarah Teichmann, Chair in Stem Cell Medicine (University of Cambridge, UK)
Translating the Human Atlas
Invited speaker: Hana Lango Allen, (Cambridge University Health Partners, UK)
Healthcare Data Research Infrastructure: focus on East of England SDE
Programme
| 08:30 |
Registration on the Dining Hall Balcony Welcome refreshments & Danish pastries in the Dining Hall |
| 09:00 |
Welcome Duncan Richards (Head of Department), Main Auditorium
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SESSION 1 - Main AuditoriumSession Lead: Virginia Pedicord |
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| 09:15 |
Eoin McKinney When and how does T1D start? characterizing early antigen-specific autoimmunity at single cell level |
| 09:30 |
Delphine Cuchet-Lourenco Analysis of patient with Regnase-1 deficiency discovers the new mechanism of IFNγ regulation implicated in autoimmunity |
| 09:45 |
Joe Joiner Molecular basis of autoimmune disease protection by MDA5 variants |
| 10:00 |
Maire Roder Neutrophils undergo a phenotypic switch following extended pathogen exposure |
| 10:15 |
Refreshment break in the Dining Hall
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SESSION 2 - Main AuditoriumSession Lead: Duncan Richards |
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| 10:40 |
Keynote - Sarah Teichman ‘Translating the Human Atlas’ |
| 11:40 |
Hana Lango Allen Healthcare Data Research Infrastructure |
| 12:00 | Lunch and Posters in the Dining Hall |
| 12:30 | Poster Judging starts - Dining Hall |
| 13:00 |
Flash Talks - Main Auditorium
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SESSION 3 - Main AuditoriumSession Lead: Andrew Conway-Morris |
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| 14:00 | Dennis Wang Oral vaccination with engineered bacteria induces CNS-protective T cells against meningitis |
| 14:15 |
Leah Hurst Characterising tight junctions in the human airway epithelium in health and disease |
| 14:30 |
Daniel Whitehouse |
| 14:45 |
Emmanuel Stamatakis Acute Thalamic MRI Markers of Chronic Post-Concussive Symptoms |
| 15:00 |
Eckhart De Bie The survival discrepancy between Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension patients eligible for clinical trials and clinical reality |
| 15:10 |
Rowena Jones StratosPHere 1 Study - a novel BMP target engagement biomarker panel for use in clinical trials in PAH |
| 15:35 |
Refreshment break in the Dining Hall
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SESSION 4 - Main AuditoriumSession Lead: Matthew Hoare |
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| 16:00 |
Ayden Case Preliminary results from the Ellipse trial (Low-dose Interleukin-2 on the Immune Landscape of Human Atherosclerotic Plaques at Single Cell Resolution) |
| 16:15 |
Tetsuo Hasegawa |
| 16:30 | David Thomas A crucial role for thyroid hormone signalling in Natural Killer Cell Biology |
| 16:45 | Emma Hodson The role of hypoxia and HIF signalling in sympathoadrenal development |
| 17:00 | Prizes & Close |
