London Paediatric Neuroscience Forum and Otto Wolff Lecture

London Paediatric Neuroscience Forum and Otto Wolff Lecture: Exploring the Frontiers of Child Brain Health

This symposium will be a comprehensive and engaging event, fostering collaboration and innovation in the quest to improve paediatric brain health. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from and network with leading experts in paediatric neuroscience on innovative diagnostic tools, early detection, the role of genetics and environment and novel treatment strategies to support children and their families, with an outlook on how artificial intelligence could revolutionise the field of neuroscience.

Otto Wolff Lecture

The UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (GOS ICH) which, together with its clinical partner Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH), forms the largest concentration of children's health research in Europe. The Otto Wolff Lecture reflects this status by show-casing world-class clinical and scientific presentations. This event also recognises one of the great GOSH/ GOS ICH Clinical Professors of Paediatrics, Otto Wolff, who maintained an active interest in Paediatrics and attended many of the sessions until his death at the age of 90 in April 2010. 

Preliminary Agenda

8:30 Registration
9:00 Welcome and Introductions | Profs Torsten Baldeweg and Giovanni Baranello
9:10 Prof Manju Kurian (UCL) | “Targeted therapies for Movement Disorders”
9:30 Dr Amy McTague (UCL) | "Precision therapies for epilepsy in children"
9:50 Prof Tony Charman (KCL) | “Neurodevelopmental insights into autism and co-occurring mental health conditions: Implications for Assessment and Intervention”
10:35 Prof Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh (KCL) | "Brain development and biomarker of neurodevelopmental disorders"
11:15 Prof Faraneh Vargha-Khadem (UCL) | "Memory disorders in children"  Otto Wolff Lecture
12:00 Lunch
13:00 ​​​​Prof Giovanni Baranello (UCL) | “Precision therapies for Neuromuscular Disorders"
13:20 Dr Pambos Demetriou (UCL) | "Investigating the developmental expression of SMN in the brain in a mouse model of spinal muscular atrophy"
13:30 Dr Konstantina Tetorou (UCL) | "Dystrophin beyond the muscle: novel insights into its role in brain function''
13:40 Prof David Skuse (UCL) | "Association of intellectual disability with neurodevelopmental disorders: updates from the IMAGINE_ID study"
14:25 Prof Stephan Sanders (University of Oxford) |  "Therapeutic Genomics: how do we bring genetic therapies to neurodevelopmental disorders?" Otto Wolff Lecture
15:10 Coffee break 
15:45 Google UK | "The latest applications of AI in medical research"
16:30 Drinks

Registration deadline 1st June 2025

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