
Gerome Breen
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Prof Psych Genetics (he/him) @KingsIoPPN NIHR MH BioResource. PI @edgi_uk, @GLADStudy, @covidcns. Gratitude: my wonderful TNG, Biobank groups @SGDPcentreKCL
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Exciting event today for the Eating Disorders Clinical Research Network and some brilliant speakers including James Downs Gerome Breen

Behind every discovery is the tech that makes it possible. At King’s, the advanced long-read sequencing facility NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) helps us decode the link between genetics and health, one base at a time 🧬🥼🧪Gerome Breen King's MND Centre Oxford Nanopore


LDAK-PBAT - new tool for pathway analysis using GWAS summary statistics. Preprint at medrxiv.org/content/10.110… Takiy Berrandou


We are thrilled to share this work linking specific human brain cell types to psychiatric and neurological disorders, out now in Nature Neuroscience rdcu.be/d6Tcy See below for an overview and thanks to the amazing Tayden Li, William Giardino, Deis Sero, and so many others!


This evening, the APPG on Eating Disorders released a report from the Hearts Minds and Genes Coalition, urging improvements in ED care. Our Chief Investigator, Gerome Breen, contributed evidence to this important work. Read the full report here: bit.ly/TheRightToHeal…



'Only the people who are the right amount of sick, at the right time, in the right place, in the right body with the right diagnosis get seen. Even then, treatment might harm them.' James Downs at the #endeatingdisorders APPG report launch.



Starting in south London in 2016, REACH Study at IoPPN has reached over 4,000 young people, to understand the mental health of young people as they grow up. Learn more about their research: kcl.ac.uk/research/reach #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek

Seminar SGDP Centre KCL Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience with Elham Assary and Rujia Wang on Thursday 13th February 2025, 10:00-11:00am.



Most common causes PREVENTABLE by #vaccination. #WHO launches the FIRST Technical Brief on #Encephalitis today, supported by Encephalitis International & Inst of Infection Veterinary & Ecological Sciences teams The 4th leading cause of #neurological death/disability in #children and 13th most common across all ages world-wide.



New Wellcome Fellowship awarded for Franklyn Nkongho to advance #brain #infection diagnostics (#encephalitis & #meningitis) In Brain Infection & Inflammation Group Inst of Infection Veterinary & Ecological Sciences University of Liverpool liverpool.ac.uk/infection-vete…


