New Therapeutic Approaches in Translational Mental Health – Academia Meets Industry – Grand Challenges and New Horizons

The New Therapeutic Approaches in Translational Mental Health conference will bring together industry, academic and clinical researchers, the regulator and government research funding organisations to discuss the current challenges facing therapeutic development.  The conference aims to explore, initiate and strengthen collaborations between industry and academia and will include local researchers from Oxford as well as researchers from the UK’s national clinical research infrastructure.

Hosted by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (OH BRC) and sponsored by the UK Mental Health Mission, the day will bring together researchers, clinicians, industry partners, charities and research funders for a day of networking, discussion and ideas exchange. The conference will showcase the breadth of expertise in the OH BRC and discuss the unmet need for innovative new technologies and therapies in mental ill health, key challenges and the potential solutions that can arise from partnerships between industry and researchers in Oxford and nationally.

Key areas of focus include; Experimental Medicine for drug development, Non-drug-based interventions and technology, Omics & Data and Clinical trials. Key challenges from the perspective of industry and academia will be explored by building the academic/industry conversation on how new approaches to academia/industry partnerships may be used to ‘de-risk’ therapeutic development.

The content of the conference programme is driven by a committee of scientists and clinicians from the OH BRC with input from industry experts. The conference will be delivered in-person on 16th September 2024 in Oxford and will consist of a series of lightning talks, industry led workshop sessions and a roundtable discussion. A preliminary conference programme is provided below.

As well as the academic science, this conference will also offer a unique opportunity to discuss the development of translational clinical infrastructure exploring challenges in clinical development, clinical trial set-up & patient recruitment and new related technologies that will help solve the R&D challenges in psychiatry and brain health.

Registrations will be through the university’s Online Shop.  Please contact Betina Nair for further information.