The Health Studies Doctoral Training Centre (HSDTC) Annual Research Symposium is a student-led event, which provides postgraduate research students with an opportunity to network with colleagues, showcase their research through either oral or poster presentations, and gain valuable new research skills and careers insights through workshops. 

We're busy getting ready for the 2024 Annual Research Symposium. Visit our SharePoint page (King's credentials required) for more details, and watch out for updates from the HSDTC newsletter.

On November 1st, 2023, King's health science postgraduate research students were welcomed to the first in-person HSDTC Symposium in over 4 years. Held in Coin Street Conference Centre, eight oral presentations and twenty-four poster presentations from postgraduate researchers across the four health faculties showcased the depth, breadth and quality of health research being conducted at King's.

The event provided opportunities for skills and knowledge development through workshops on Public Speaking, Open Research and Careers Exploration.

A special thanks goes to the Student Organising Committee for organising this fantastic event:

• Mariana da Silva (Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences)
• Charlotte Rogers (Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences)
• Julia Koziel (Forensic & Neurodevelopmental Sciences)
• Alaa Zam (Cancer and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
• Norah Alothman (Psychological Medicine)
• Joe Reynolds (Basic & Clinical Neuroscience)
• Eason Rangarajan (Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences)

Congratulations to the Student Presentation Prize Winners:

• Best Oral Presentation (Judges' Vote) - Rosie Barrows (Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences) - "A computational study comparing treatment strategies for atrial fibrillation in a cohort of patient-specific heart models"
• Best Oral Presentation (Public Vote) - Qizi Ju (Cardiovascular Medicine and Sciences) - "The role of immune cell transcription factor T-bet in obesity and insulin resistance"
• Best Poster Presentation (Judges' Vote) - Hayley Costanzo (Population Health and Environmental Sciences) - "The Development of DNA Aptamers against Human Red Blood Cells for Forensic Detection"
• Best Poster Presentation (Public Vote) - Lidan Liu (Population Health and Environmental Sciences) - "Diagnostic accuracy of deep learning using speech samples in depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis"