NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellowships awarded to seven applicants from King’s IoPPN

Photos of seven awardees

The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has awarded Pre-doctoral Fellowships to seven candidates from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London. This is the sixth round of fellowships, which are funded by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).

Six of the successful applications were submitted by the Department of Biostatistics & Health Informatics and a further one was submitted by the Department of Psychology. The full details of the successful applicants, their supervisors and projects, are listed below. They will start between September 2024 and March 2025.

NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellowships are designed to support people who are looking to start or advance a career in health and social care research methodology, specifically in one of the following methodological areas:

  • Medical statistics
  • Health economics
  • Clinical trial design
  • Operational research
  • Modelling
  • Bioinformatics
  • Qualitative research
  • Mixed methods
  • Epidemiological methods

 

Department of Biostatistics & Health Informatics

Levente Horvath

Levente Horvath

Levente will be attending the Applied Statistical Modelling & Health Informatics MSc at the BHI department and will be also developing a tool for assessing misophonia in young people

Supervised by: Dr Silia Vitoratou

Lilla Szanto

Lilla Szanto

Lilla will be attending numerous training courses in models used in psychometrics and she will join the psychometrics and measurement lab as a research assistant.

Supervised by: Dr Silia Vitoratou

 

Mandegarsadat Miresmaeili

Mandegarsadat Miresmaeili

Mandy will be attending the Applied Statistical Modelling & Health Informatics MSc at the BHI department and will be analysing large-scale genetic datasets to study the incomplete penetrance of pathogenic variants in Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Supervised by: Dr Alfredo Iacoangeli

Nabila Naeem

Nabila Naeem 

Nabila will be attending the Applied Statistical Modelling & Health Informatics MSc at the BHI department and will be developing machine learning methods to predict Inflammatory Bowel Disease outcomes.

Supervised by: Dr Raquel Iniesta 

 

Department of Biostatistics & Health Informatics and the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine (FoLSM)

 

Katherine Phillips 

Katherine Phillips

Katherine will be completing the Evidence-Based Healthcare (Medical Statistics) MSc at the University of Oxford alongside attending several additional courses in clinical trial design. She will also be continuing her work as a research assistant for several clinical trials in mental health.

Supervised by: Professor Abdel Douiri and Professor Richard Emsley

 

Department of Biostatistics & Health Informatics and the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP) Centre

Eve Bolland

Eve Bolland

Eve will be completing several courses in clinical trial design, including modules from the Applied Statistical Modelling & Health Informatics MSc, and assisting in a clinical trial investigating a novel therapeutic for Alzheimer's Disease.

Supervised by: Dr Grainne McLoughlin and Professor Richard Emsley

 

Department of Psychology and the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP) Centre

Kealan Forristal

Kealan Forristal 

Kealan will be analysing large-scale datasets to study the impact of cardiovascular disease on mental health, aiming to identify potential intervention targets. He will be completing the MSc in Applied Statistics and Health Informatics. 

Supervised by: Dr Moritz Herle and Dr Helena Zavos

 


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By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 22 Aug 2024, 09:28 AM


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