
Dr Kirstin Purves
@kl_purves
Genomic & quantitative research lead. Our Future Health. Statistical genetics & psychology.
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29-08-2016 23:58:23
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Very exciting to hear Amanda Pritchard describe the launch of the new NHS genomic strategy launching today! #nhsgenomics NHS Genomic Medicine Service

I am very happy to share our review article “Using Human Genetics to Improve Safety Assessment of Therapeutics”, now published in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. 🧵 nature.com/articles/s4157…



Come and work with us at the SGDP Centre KCL - two more days to apply for our lectureship


Wonderful @MegSkelton1 passed her viva with no corrections. Another fab EDIT Lab KCL SGDP Centre KCL Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience #PhD student who lasted out the pandemic. Many congrats & thanks examiners Barney Dunn @drmluciano I got v excited by N of my current/past PhD students see last photo!





Our article on mental health over 12 months of the pandemic in the UK is out now in Psychological Medicine. The 2nd pub from the cohort study launched by Katie Young and the team Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience SGDP Centre KCL, with her brilliant postdoc Dr Kirstin Purves. A 🧵: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

So excited to see this paper with the great Christine Parsons and Dr Kirstin Purves published! These findings highlight differential trajectories of mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Very grateful to RAMP Study GLADStudy NIHR BioResource participants for making this work possible🙏


Looking for a #PhD to explore how genetics and #polygenic scores could be useful in psychiatry? Apply for the project below with me and Evangelos Vassos.

🚨 Only 1 more week to apply for this MGS ESRC DTP funded PhD studentship with me, Jennifer Cook and Dani_Ropar: "Socio-emotional synchrony and rapport between autistic and non-autistic adults" Apply here: jobs.ac.uk/job/CWT640/esr… #PhD #Autism 🧵

Paper out in print, was culmination of many years hard work, esp by Dr Kirstin Purves @T_J_McGregor. Shows genetic influence on fear acquisition & extinction with partial overlap between them. Interesting implications for genetics of exposure based treatments. cambridge.org/core/journals/…


(2/7) 👏Celebrating #WomenLeaders in #psychiatricGenetics PGC Consortium #IWD2024 Dr Cathryn Lewis Barbara Franke Caroline Nievergelt Prof Thalia Eley 💙 @LauraHuckins Danielle Cynthia Bulik Niamh Mullins Jet Termorshuizen Dr Kirstin Purves Elise Robinson Arianna Di Florio Laramie Duncan Dr. Rosie Anna Docherty

Gerome Breen Was a great pleasure. Really lovely to have so many current members and alumni of both our groups there. SGDP Centre KCL NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
