I have worked on a wide range of topics, ranging from evolution to health genomics. I am particularly interested in how we can use real-world data to tackle cancer and infectious diseases. I would also like to expand my research to include non-communicable diseases such as metabolic disease, cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

Other research interests include

Children and Young People's Mental Health | Epidemiology | Physical Health

Naomi Launders

PhD Student, Division of Psychiatry

Other research interests include

Serious Mental Illness | Global Mental Health | Epidemiology | Physical Health

Stuart Linke

Clinical Psychologist, Institute of Digital Health

Other research interests include

Mood Disorders | Psychological Interventions | Physical Health | Psychosocial

Andrew MacAskill

Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Division of Biosciences

We are working to understand how neurons in the brain communicate with each other to allow them to encode emotional behaviours and make decisions. Problems with this communication underlie the vast majority of neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases, and so our aim is to find novel ways to combat these diseases by gaining a greater understanding of the processes that they destroy.

Other research interests include

Children and Young People's Mental Health | Mood Disorders | Neuroscience | Pharmacology

Rosalind McAlpine

PhD Student, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences

Other research interests include

Ronan McCoy

Student Advisor - Student Support and Wellbeing

Other research interests include

Children and Young People's Mental Health | Cognition | Trauma | Identity development

Nigel McKenzie

Research Associate, Division of Psychiatry

Other research interests include

Epidemiology | Mood Disorders | Suicide and Self-harm | Serious Mental Illness

Andrew McQuillin

Professor, Division of Psychiatry

Research in the Molecular Psychiatry laboratory has centred on the use of genetics to develop an understanding of the abnormal neurobiology that increases the risk of developing schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, ADHD and alcoholism.

Other research interests include

Serious Mental Illness

Sami Omar Amawi

Core trainee in psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry

Other research interests include

Mood Disorders | Neuroscience | Serious Mental Illness | Trauma

Rachel Pearson

Research Assistant, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health

I am currently working on a research project which will utilise linked family courts and healthcare data to examine women who become involved in care proceedings and have children placed into out-of-home care. In particular, we aim to identify opportunities for greater input in a healthcare setting to improve the health and wellbeing of mothers involved in recurrent care proceedings and to reduce child maltreatment.

Other research interests include

Serious Mental Illness | Epidemiology | Physical Health | Family Justice System

Francesca Solmi

Senior Research Fellow, Division of Psychiatry

My research broadly focuses on studying the risk factors for the development of eating disorders across the life-span. As part of my Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship I am studying whether inflammation - conceptualisd as exposure to prenatal and childhood infections, high genetic risk, autoimmunity - increases a person's risk of developing eating disorders. To do this, I use large general population datasets, including both biological and environmental data, and causal inference methods. I am also interested in studying inequalities in access to services and evaluating the effectiveness of current treatments for eating disorders using electronic medical records.

Other research interests include

Children and Young People's Mental Health | Epidemiology | Eating Disorders