Annual Research and Innovation Meeting 2025
Event details
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from Wednesday 18 June 2025 - 9:00am to Thursday 19 June 2025 - 5:00pm
Description
We are excited to announce that from 18 -19 June 2025 we will hold our second School of Medicine and Population Health Research and Innovation Meeting. This year will culminate in an exciting afternoon on 19 June with the Faculty of Health Showcase: bringing the research from all the schools across the Faculty together to showcase and celebrate the research of the Faculty and act as a catalyst for collaboration.
The events will be held within the Wave and will be a fantastic opportunity to hear about the research across the Faculty and will provide an opportunity for anyone involved in research to showcase their work and network with colleagues.
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Plenary speaker 2025: Professor Solomon Tesfaye MB ChB, MD, FRCP
Solomon Tesfaye is a Consultant Diabetologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and Honorary Professor of Diabetes Medicine at the University of Sheffield. He is also the Research Director of the Diabetes & Endocrinology Directorate. He was appointed NIHR Senior Investigator in March 2024.
His research projects include the epidemiology, risk factors, pathogenesis, CNS involvement and treatment of diabetic neuropathy and neuropathic pain. He has published a textbook of Diabetic Neuropathy, over 250 original articles and reviews including a landmark study in the NEJM and has an H-Index of 83. Solomon has served in several national (e.g. MRC DPFS) and international (US NIH) grant panels and has received over £21m grant funding as PI and co-applicant.
Solomon served as Chair of the International Consensus Panel on Diabetic Neuropathy and was awarded the Prestigious Camillo Golgi Prize of the European Diabetes Association in 2014 for outstanding scientific contributions in Diabetic Neuropathy. He also received the Arnold Bloom Award of Diabetes UK in 2017 for innovative and patient-centred diabetes care. Finally, he received the European Diabetes Association NEURODIAB Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024 for sustained, high quality research in Diabetic Neuropathy.
