Speakers

Plenary Keynote speaker: Professor Rickie Patani, The Francis Crick Institute.

Professor Rickie Patani is a physician-scientist with over a decade of direct experience working on human-induced pluripotent stem cell models of neurodegeneration.

Internal inspirational/spotlight speakers

• Professor Heather Mortiboys: Professor of Cellular Neuroscience and Metabolism
• Professor Pete Dodd: Professor of Mathematical Modelling and Epidemiology
• Professor Pirashanthie Vivekananda-Schmidt: Professor of Medical Education
• Professor Penny Ottewell: Professor of Cancer Biology
• Professor James Catto: Professor of Surgery

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Call for abstracts

The working group is looking forward to developing an exciting integrated showcase of the research undertaken across the School and we would like to encourage all investigators and researchers to submit abstracts.

Abstracts and presentations should be delivered in a manner to engage the audience which represents a diverse research community across the School of Medicine and Population Health. 

This year we intend to run parallel sessions and will have two full days days of programming for all providing excellent opportunities for presentations, including: 

• up to 44 oral presentations (7-minute presentation plus 3 minutes for questions) 
• up to 12 flash oral presentations (3-minute presentations plus 2 minutes questions)
• up to 40 poster elevator pitches (a 1-minute talk to attract the audience to your poster) 
• posters (which will be presented as printed posters on standard poster boards, with poster rounds across two lunch breaks and a networking reception) 

Abstracts will be reviewed by the Research Meeting Working Group and selected for oral, flash or poster elevator pitches based on abstract scores, programming diversity and diversity of presenters. All abstracts will be published in the meeting’s abstract book.  

There will be several exciting prizes on offer supporting differential career stages and presentation formats.

Oral presenters must be available to speak on the day. 

To preserve confidentiality, all participants will agree to non-disclosure of research not in the public domain.

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Submission of abstracts

Anyone wishing to submit an abstract should complete the form below by 5pm on Friday 15 March 2024.

Abstract submission form

You should ensure your abstract is written in a manner which is understandable to the diverse research community of the School of Medicine and Population Health.  

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Further information

Full schedule (Word, 50KB)

List of workshops (Word, 13KB) 

If you have any queries concerning the School's Research Meeting, contact the Organising Team at school-research-day@sheffield.ac.uk. 

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