Faculty of Medicine Research Conference 2016 Event
- Time:
- 08:40 - 18:30
- Date:
- 23 June 2016
- Venue:
- Southampton General Hospital
For more information regarding this event, please telephone Matt Coleman on 023 8120 6439 or email [email protected] .
Event details
The conference will showcase presentations and posters from early career researchers, postgraduate research students and clinical academic trainees and will highlight the depth and breadth of the biomedical research being performed by researchers within the Faculty.
The Conference will be held on 23 June 2016.
Registration on the day will begin at 08.40, with presentations from postgraduate research students, postdoctoral researchers, and clinical academic trainees taking place throughout the day.
As in recent years the Conference is being held in Lecture Theatres 1 and 2 on Level B, South Academic Block, Southampton General Hospital.
This is a one day conference that will showcase the breadth and depth of high quality research being carried out across the Faculty by our early career researchers (postgraduate research students, postdoctoral researchers, and Clinical Academic Trainees).
The conference will include oral and poster presentations through-out the day.
Research Conference Programme
08.40 - Registration
09.15 - 16.15 - Oral and Poster presentations
16.15 - 17.00 - Presentations by the winners of:-
'The Iain Cameron Prize for best research publication by a postdoctoral researcher'
'The Wessex Medical Research Prize for best research publication by a postgraduate research student'
'The Michael Arthur prize for best research publication by a Clinical Academic Trainee'
17.00 - 18.05 The Annual Wade Lecture
18.05 - Conference Prize Ceremony
More details can be found at the Research Conference 2016 web page
Should you have any questions regarding the conference please email Matthew Coleman via [email protected] .
Please note - Please note the Annual Wade Lecture is taking place on the same day as the Faculty Research Conference. Registering for the Conference will automatically register you for the Wade Lecture.
The Annual Wade Lecture
We are delighted welcome Professor Michael Arthur, UCL President & Provost, to present our Annual Wade lecture. Professor Arthur is an alumnus of Southampton University and also formerly Professor of Medicine (1992–2004), Head of the School of Medicine (1998–2001) and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences at the University.
Speaker information
Professor John Holloway,will be hosting the day.
Professor Michael Arthur ,UCL President and Provost,Title - "REF,TEF, Green Paper, Nurse and Stern; Whoops-a-Daisy" Professor Michael Arthur is President and Provost of University College London. Prior to this he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds, and formerly Professor of Medicine (1992), Head of the School of Medicine (1998-2001) and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences in Southampton (2003-04). He is a hepatologist with research interests in liver cell biology developed initially at the University of California, San Francisco (1986-1988) and more recently as a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York (2002). In 2015, Professor Arthur became the first Vice-Chancellor of a Russell Group University to become a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Professor Arthur has a significant national and international profile. He was Chair of the Advisory Group for National Specialised Services (NHS) (2010-2013) and was a long standing member of the Council of the Medical Research Council until recently (2006 - Sept 2014). He has also been a US/UK Fulbright Commissioner and is a former Chair of both the Worldwide Universities Network and the Russell Group of Universities. Professor Arthur took up his current post on 1 September 2013.