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NIHR BioResource Scientific Conference 2025

June 25 @ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm

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The NIHR BioResource Scientific Conference takes place on Wednesday 25 June 2025, from 9:30am to 12:30pm. This online event is free to attend and showcases a range of research made possible using NIHR BioResource infrastructure by inviting some of our research partners to present their work.

Our conference will present a variety of cutting-edge academic and industry-led translational research across a range of disease areas, including the role we play in accessing data, samples and participant recall by genotype and/or phenotype.

Join us to learn how the NIHR BioResource can support your experimental medicine research or early phase clinical trial and take your research from bench to bedside.

Speakers

Along with our keynote Professor Bola Owolabi, please see below for our featured speakers across our conference.

  • Professor Bola Owolabi, Director of Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme, NHS England
  • Stella Kozmér, PhD Researcher, University of Exeter Medical School, Primary Care Research Group
  • Dr. Laura Watson, Metabolic Physiologist, NIHR Cambridge Clinical Research Facility
  • Dr. David Mosedale, VP, Proteomics, RxCelerate Ltd
  • Professor Karen Ersche, Professor of Addiction Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
  • Dr. Nathalie Kingston, Director, NIHR BioResource

What’s on the agenda?

The main conference agenda will feature our research partners presenting their work, as well as a session for attendees to learn more about working with the BioResource.

  • 9:30 – 9:35 – Welcome message to participants and background about the event
  • 9:35 – 9:45 – A few words from Professor Bola Owolabi, Director of the National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme at NHS England
  • 9:45 – 10:05 – Exploration of current practices of identification and management of Binge Eating Disorder and Bulimia Nervosa in Primary Care in the UK
  • 10:05 – 10:25 – Healthy control data across the lifespan – applications in metabolic disease
  • Find out more about working with the BioResource
  • Q&A session with the BioResource covering the application process and types of support available for your research study
  • 11:10- 11:30
  • 11:30 – 11:50 – Evaluating novel NOD2 agonists in patients with Crohn’s disease
  • 11:50 – 12:10 – Why do some people who use cocaine develop addiction and others don’t?
  • 12:10 – 12:30 – Closing remarks from our Director and next steps

Register to Attend

The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) BioResource is a recallable resource of over 300,000 volunteers, with and without health conditions, who have agreed to take part in health research. Participants donate a biological sample, provide health and lifestyle information, and consent for us to access their health records. They are also willing to be contacted based on their phenotype and/or genotype to take part in further research studies and early-phase clinical trials.

Academic or Industry researchers can apply to the NIHR BioResource to access data, samples and/or participant recall to support their research. The NIHR BioResource is one of four key infrastructures supporting population-level genomic projects in the Life Sciences Industrial Strategy.

Our national coordinating centre is in Cambridge, with a further 18 regional BioResource Centres, based at corresponding NIHR Biomedical Research Centres (BRC) across England: Birmingham, Cambridge, Exeter, Leeds, Leicester, Barts, GOSH, Imperial, Maudsley, Moorfields, UCLH, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Oxford Health, Sheffield, and Southampton.

Details

Date:
June 25
Time:
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
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Website:
https://registration.crowdcomms.com/bioresource2025

Venue

Online
United Kingdom

Organiser

NIHR BioResource
Email
comms@bioresource.nihr.ac.uk
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