UK Stroke Research Workshop 2023

UK Stroke Research Workshop 2023

Organised under the auspices of the NIHR Stroke Speciality Group and hosted by the Stroke Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, the 2023 UK Stroke Research Workshop is generously supported by the NIHR, British and Irish Association of Stroke Physicians and the Stroke Association. It will be held on 26th and 27th September 2023 in London, following highly successful workshops held in Cambridge, Manchester, Leicester and Sheffield. There will be updates on the latest stroke research including sessions on novel treatment approaches in stroke including AI, unravelling mechanisms in stroke rehabilitation towards better treatments, what’s new in brain imaging in stroke, brain- immune interactions in stroke, and controversies in stroke.

Venue:

Building Centre, 26 Store St, London WC1E 7BT 

Registration fees:

Non-trainee (includes registration fee, lunches, tea and coffee, and dinner on Tuesday 26th September): £140

Trainee (includes registration fee, lunches, tea and coffee, and dinner on Tuesday 26th September): £90

Bursaries:               

A number of fully funded bursaries (registration fees, accommodation, dinner, and up to £100 towards travel) are available for medical students. One of these is funded from the Jane White Stroke Research Fund.

Accommodation:

The speakers and organising committee will be staying at the President Hotel. If you would like to book a hotel room for yourself at the same hotel, please follow this link: https://www.imperialhotels.co.uk/hotels/royal-national-hotel

Abstract submission:

All submissions should be uploaded to https://www.strokeworkshop.uk. Queries should be addressed to ukstrokeresearchworkshop@gmail.com. The closing date is 30th June 2023. Please follow https://twitter.com/StrokeWorkshop for updates.

Programme: 

Tuesday 26th September

Interactive Workshop I: Becoming involved in research 

The workshop will highlight ways in an early career individual can develop a research career and ways in which full time clinicians can become involved in research.

10.30 - How to succeed in developing and sustaining your own research 
Moderator: Stuart Allan
Interactive panel discussion 
Will cover: project design, funding, fellowships, publishing

11.30 - 10 lessons for young researchers
Professor Avril Drummond, University of Nottingham

12.00 - Light Lunch

Session I: Novel Treatment Approaches in Stroke
Chairs: TBC

13.00 - How AI could revolutionise stroke care
Professor Parashkev Nachev, UCL

13.25 - Using nanotechnology to deliver drugs across the BBB in stroke
Dr Zahraa Al-Ahmady, Nottingham Trent University   

13.50 - New frontiers in neurosurgery for intracerebral haemorrhage
Professor Karin Klijn, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

14.15 - Submitted Abstract: TO BE FINALISED AFTER ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

14.25 - Submitted Abstract: TO BE FINALISED AFTER ABSTRACT SUBMISSION 

Session II: Poster Tour A

14.35 - Guided Poster Tour (with Tea/Coffee)

Session III: Unravelling Mechanisms in Rehabilitation towards better treatments
Chairs: TBC

15.40 - Intensive comprehensive aphasia programme (ICAP)
Professor Alex Leff, UCL

16.05- Low frequency ultrasound in neuromodulation
Professor Marcus Kaiser, University of Nottingham 

16.30 - Understanding what causes fatigue to devise better treatments
Dr Anna Kuppuswamy, UCL

16.55 - Submitted Abstract: TO BE FINALISED AFTER ABSTRACT SUBMISSION 

17.05 - Submitted Abstract: TO BE FINALISED AFTER ABSTRACT SUBMISSION 

17.15 - Close of Main Programme 

19.30 - Conference Dinner

Wednesday 27th September

Session IV: What’s new in Brain imaging in stroke? 
Chairs:    TBC

09.00 - Advances in small vessel disease imaging – the power of 7T 
Philip Benjamin, St George’s, University of London

09.25 - Molecular imaging of inflammation
Maxime Gauberti, CHU de Caen Normandie, France

09.50 - Frontiers in Stroke Imaging
Dr Jack Wells, UCL

10.15 - Submitted abstract: TO BE FINALISED AFTER ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

10.25 - Submitted abstract: TO BE FINALISED AFTER ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Session V: Poster Tour B

10.35 - Guided Poster Tour (with Tea/Coffee)

Session VI: Brain immune interactions in stroke
Chairs: TBC

11.45 - Immune reprogramming and cardiovascular disease
Professor Niels Riksen, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

12.10 - B cell dysregulation in stroke
Dr Laura McCulloch, University of Edinburgh 

12.35 - Inflammation in small vessel disease: Friend or foe? 
Dr Robin Brown, University of Cambridge - results of MINERVA trial

13.00 - Lunch 

Session VII: Controversies in stroke
Chairs: TBC

14.00 - Submitted Abstract: TO BE FINALISED AFTER ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

14.10 - Is cerebrovascular disease transmissible? Lessons from Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy (CAA)
Dr Gargi Banerjee, UCL 

14.35 - Therapeutic failure after anti-thrombotics: novel approaches to stroke prevention
Professor David Seiffge, Inselspital Bern, Switzerland

15.00 - Stroke and the blood: clotting dilemmas 
Professor Hannah Cohen, UCL

15.25 - Concluding remarks & poster prizes

15.35  Close of meeting