
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.
From: Tue 26 Sep 2023
To: Wed 27 Sep 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
- Tutor: Professor David Werring
- Contact: Amy Gent
- Tel:
- Email: a.gent@ucl.ac.uk
Venue:
- Building Centre
- 26 Store St, London
- WC1E 7BT