School of Medicine
Research Symposium
25th & 26th February 2016
Crieff Hydro Hotel
Thursday 25th February
08:30-09:00
Registration/Coffee • Ballroom
Session 1
• Drawing Room
Chair: Professor Keith Matthews
09:00-09:15
Professor Paul Clarke
“Welcome and Opening Remarks”
09:15-09:40
Professor John Hayes
“Opportunities for translational research around oxidative stress in the Medical School:
Therapeutic value of targeting Nrf2”
09:40-10:05
Dr Charis Marwick
“Antimicrobial use and resistance: opportunities for collaborative research”
10:05-10:30
Professor Kevin Hiom
“Understanding the molecular basis of cancer treatment with Parp inhibitors”
10:30-11:00
Tea and Coffee • Ballroom
Session 2
Chair: Professor Steve Keyse
11:00-11:25
Dr Dan Morales
“Risk prediction modelling: clinical examples using health care data”
11:25-11:50
Professor Andy Evans
“Predicting response to neo-adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer”
11:50-12:15
Dr Paul Newey
“Modelling hereditary and sporadic endocrine tumours using induced pluripotent stem cells
(iPSCs)”
12:15-13:30
Lunch • Meikle Restaurant
Session 3
Joint with the School of Dentistry and the School of Nursing & Health Sciences
• Drawing Room
Chair: Professor Peter Mossey
13:30-13:40
Dr Dilip Nathwani
“Academic Health Sciences Partnership”
13:40-13:50
Professor Mary Renfrew
“Centre for Health and Related Research”
13:50-14:00
Dr Fiona Williams
“Academic Health Sciences Partnership – Research Stream”
14:00 – 14:15
Professor Nicola Innes (School of Dentistry)
“Turning FiCTION into Fact; Making Non-adherence to Protocol Useful in a Randomised
Trial of Children’s Dentistry”
14:15-14:30
Professor Russell Petty (School of Medicine)
“Defining novel biological subgroups of oesophageal cancer to stratify and optimise targeted
treatments”
14:30 – 14:45
Professor Tim Croudace (School of Nursing & Health Sciences)
“General health questionnaires and general wellbeing factors: understanding instruments
from multiple epidemiological perspectives”
14:45-15:20
Tea and Coffee • Ballroom
Session 4
Chair: Dr Fiona Williams
15:20-15:35
Dr Mike Macluskey (School of Dentistry)
“Early detection of oral cancer using a laser detector (EDOCALD award)”
15:35-15:50
Dr Andrea Rodriguez (School of Dentistry)
“Scottish oral health improvement homelessness programme (Smile4life project)”
15:50-16:05
Professor Bruce Guthrie (School of Medicine)
“Improving primary care prescribing safety: four trials in 550 general practices”
16:05-16:20
Dr Stuart Schembri (School of Medicine)
“Screening for lung cancer - where are we now?"
16:20-16:35
Dr Alison McFadden (School of Nursing & Health Sciences)
“Enhancing trust between health services and Gypsy/Travellers: a study funded by the
Department of Health Policy Research Programme”
16:35-16:50
Dr Steve MacGillivray (School of Nursing and Health Sciences)
“Innovative approaches to evidence synthesis: the work of the Evidence Synthesis
Training and Research (STAR) Group”
17:00-17:45
Professor Tim Newman – introduced by Mary Renfrew
“University Research Strategy: Culture and Sustainability”
17:45-19:00
Poster Session and Wine Reception • Loggia & Ballroom
19:30
Dinner • Ferntower Suite
Friday 26th February
07:30-09:00
Breakfast • Meikle Restaurant
Session 5
• Drawing Room
Chair: Professor Mike Ashford
09:00-09:15
Dr Mike McMahon
“Development of a p21 reporter model for assessing the safety of DNA damage responsetargeted anticancer drugs in vivo”
09:15-09:30
Mr Calum Forteath
“A novel mechanism underlying inhibition of mTORC1 by metformin in hepatocytes”
09.30-09:45
Dr Alison McNeilly
“Neuronal IL-6 receptor deficiency exacerbates glucose intolerance on high fat feeding”
09:45-10:10
Dr James Chalmers
“Eat or explode? Neutrophil choices determine outcome in respiratory infections”
10:10-10:35
Dr Weihua Meng
“Genome-wide association studies of pain phenotypes and diabetic eye disorders – making
use of e-health linkage and genetic data”
10:35-11:05
Tea and Coffee • Ballroom
Session 6
Chair: Professor Sara Brown
11:05-11:30
Dr Victoria Sherwood
“Fighting metastatic melanoma with nanomedicine”
11:30-11:55
Professor Jeremy Lambert
“The influence of early life stress on addiction and cognition”
11:55-12:10
Dr Paul Meakin
“Increased amyloid processing disturbs vascular function in mice”
12:10-12:25
Dr Jonathan Weir-McCall
“Assessment of the effects of age on proximal pulmonary arterial and aortic stiffness using
magnetic resonance imaging”
12:25-12:40
Dr Sarah Mills
“Emergency Care Presentations by Patients with Terminal Cancer”
12:40-14:00
Lunch • Meikle Restaurant
Core Facilities • Ballroom
Session 7
Chair: Professor Tim Hales
14:00-14:25
Professor Chim Lang
“Exploiting the Off-Target Effects of Diabetic Therapies”
14:25-14:50
Professor Colin Palmer
“Genomics beyond genetics: Biomarker discovery in the post genomic age ”
14:50-15:15
Dr Albena Dinkova-Kostova
“Harnessing natural products from plants to understand mammalian cytoprotective
mechanisms”
15:15-15:40
Professor John Dillon
“Killing a killer disease”
15:40-16:00
Professor Gary Mires
“Closing Remarks”