2025

Opening remarks

Professor Timothy Hinks, Director of Oxford-MRC DTP

10-Min Student Talks - Session 1

Jasmine Blane – 4th year, Psychiatry

Aurelija Ippolito – 4th year, Pharmacology

Konstantinos Lekkos – 2nd year, Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics

Holly Roach – 2nd year, Centre for Human Genetics

Tea/Coffee and Poster Presentations Group 1

Konstantinos Lekkos – 2nd year, Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics
Katie Croft – 2nd year, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
Megha Agarwal – 1st year, Radcliffe Department of Medicine
Jennifer Astley – 3rd year, Kennedy Institute
Kim López Güell – 3rd year, NDORMS
Tom Wilson – 2nd year, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine

Keynote Speaker

Professor Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu DBE, FMedSci, HonFRSC

(President of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge

Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience, UCL

Founding Chief Scientific Officer of Nanomerics Ltd.

Academy of Medical Sciences Fellow

Royal Society of Chemistry Honorary Fellow

Wellcome Board Governor)

Lunch

10-Min Student Talks - Session 2

Jennifer Astley – 3rd year, Kennedy Institute

Natasha Fisher-Pearson – 4th year, Kennedy Institute

Maya Pidoux – 4th year, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine

Katie Croft – 2nd year, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine

Skills Talk

Dr David Jones - "What I’ve learnt on my long random walk to extinction"

Tea/Coffee and Poster Presentations Group 2

Jasmine Blane – 4th year, Psychiatry
Holly Roach – 2nd year, Centre for Human Genetics
Dan Atkinson – 2nd year, Radcliffe Department of Medicine
Aurelija Ippolito – 4th year, Pharmacology
Harry Lee – 1st year, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
Lucy Hamer – 3rd year, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine

3-Minute Research Competition (3-MRC)

Lottie Shipp – Experimental Psychology
Hao Li – Clinical Neurosciences
Rowan Haslam – Psychiatry
Dan Atkinson – 2nd year, Radcliffe Department of Medicine
Aleksandr Kovalenko – 2nd year, Biochemistry
Hannah Dobbs – 2nd year, Clinical Medicine

Careers Panel Talks & Discussion

Dr Jade Bailey – Associate Principal Scientist, Sitryx Therapeutics

Dr Faseeha Ayaz – Senior Editor, Nature Communications

Dr Sumana Sharma – Wellcome Career Development Fellow and Group Leader, University of Oxford

Awards Ceremony & Closing Remarks