RESEARCHER DEVELOPMENT DAYS 2016/2017 Wednesday 30 November 2016 Seminar Room 02/6008, 2 nd Floor UCL Centre for Nephrology Royal Free Hospital Rowland Hill Street London, NW3 2PF DELEGATE PACK Kidney Research UK Alumni: www.kidneyresearchuk.org/research/alumni Email: alumni@kidneyresearchuk.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/alumniprogramme The Alumni programme has been supported by financial grants from a number of industry partners
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RESEARCHER DEVELOPMENT DAYS 2016/17 Wednesday 30 November 2016 Seminar Room 02/6008, 2nd Floor, UCL Centre for Nephrology Royal Free Hospital, Rowland Hill Street London, NW3 2PF 09.30 10.00 Arrival and Refreshments PROGRAMME 10.00-10.15 Welcome and introductions Professor Adrian Woolf, Chair of Paediatric Science, University of Manchester, Kidney Research UK Trustee and Alumni Ambassador 10.15 11.15 Keynote research topic/presentation From cell culture to clinical trial: Spleen Tyrosine Kinase (SYK) as a novel therapeutic target in IgA nephropathy Professor Fred Tam, Professor of Renal Medicine, Imperial College London 11.15-12.15 Research Fellow career story Dr Claire Sharpe, Clinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Renal Medicine at King s College London/King s College Hospital 12.15 13.00 LUNCH 13.00 16.00 Interactive workshop including presentations, questions, breakout sessions How to get your work published Preparing your manuscript Choosing the right journal Responding to reviewers comments Professor David Wheeler, Professor of Kidney Medicine, Centre of Nephrology, University College London 16.00 16.30 Networking and tea/coffee/biscuits The next Researcher Development Day will be on 6 February 2017, at the University of Leeds, and will again include a session on getting your work published. More information will be available here in due course: www.kidneyresearchuk.org/research/alumni-workshops
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES Professor Fred Tam is the Professor of Medicine at Imperial College London. His research training was supported by a Medical Research Council Training Fellowship and a Kidney Research UK Senior Fellowship. He has been investigating the importance of cytokines in pathogenesis of glomerulonephritis, diabetic nephropathy and renal allograft rejection. Fred has set up cross-boundary collaboration and patient-focused research. His research group has developed experimental therapies of glomerulonephritis using soluble cytokine receptor, receptor antagonist and monoclonal antibodies, recombinant regulatory cytokines and signal transduction inhibitors. He has also applied the experience from cytokine analysis and proteomics to development of non-invasive biomarkers for glomerulonephritis, for diabetic nephropathy and for complications in peritoneal dialysis patients (in collaboration with Professor Edwina Brown). Together with Professor David Taube and the Transplantation Translational Research Group, he is investigating the novel mechanisms of renal transplant rejection and developing novel anti-rejection therapy (supported by Kidney Research UK Making Every Kidney Count Programme Grant). The expertise of his research group has been applied in the preclinical and early clinical development of anti-inflammatory therapies, in collaboration with the industry. Fred is the Principal Investigator of an international randomised controlled clinical trial of a Spleen Tyrosine Kinase (Syk) inhibitor in the treatment of IgA nephropathy. (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/nct02112838, http://www.hra.nhs.uk/news/research-summaries/phase-2-study-of-fostamatinibfor-subjects-with-iga-nephropathy) He is also the Founding Lead of the UK Rare Disease Group for Retroperitoneal Fibrosis (http://rarerenal.org/rare-disease-groups/retroperitoneal-fibrosis-rdg/). Together with Professor Robert Unwin (Royal Free Hospital, University College London), he has established the Purinergic Receptor Research Consortium in order to investigate the novel function of purinergic receptors in regulating inflammasome and cytokine secretions in renal diseases. Together with Dr Andrew Frankel, they have established the Diabetic Nephropathy Translational Research Consortium to investigate novel disease mechanisms and to develop new therapy.
Dr Claire Sharpe is a Reader and Honorary Consultant in Renal Medicine at King s College London/King s College Hospital. She graduated in Medicine from University College London and after specialising in Renal Medicine commenced research in renal fibrosis at King s College London under the supervision of Professor Bruce Hendry. She received a National Kidney Research Fund Clinical Training Fellowship in 1999 and was awarded her PhD in 2001. In 2002 she successfully obtained a Department of Health/NIHR 5- year Clinician Scientist Award and completed her specialist clinical training in 2004. In 2009 she was awarded a NHS/HEFCE Clinical Senior Lectureship. In 2015 Dr Sharpe became Head of the Department of Renal Sciences at KCL and is currently deputy chair of the Renal Association Research Committee and a member of the editorial board for BMC Nephrology. She currently works as a clinical academic devoting 50% of her time to research in renal fibrosis and 50% to clinical activity, specialising in the care of patients with sickle cell anaemia and CKD. Professor David Wheeler is Professor of Kidney Medicine at University College London. He is a Clinician Scientist with an interest in the complications of chronic kidney disease, specifically those that increase the burden of cardiovascular disease and/or accelerate progression of kidney failure. He has participated in the design, roll out and monitoring of several large-scale clinical trials. He was a member of the steering committee of the Study of Heart and Renal Protection (SHARP), the EValuation Of Cinacalcet HCl Therapy to Lower CardioVascular Events (EVOLVE) and currently sits on the steering committee of Canaglifozin and Renal Events in Diabetes with Established Nephropathy Clinical Evaluation (CREDENCE), acting as UK principle investigator for this study. He is Clinical Lead for Division 2 of the North Thames Clinical Research Network and has involvement in Guideline Development for several organisations, most recently for Kidney Disease, Improving Global Outcomes, of which he is currently co-chair. A past president of the Renal Association, he leads a team of 8 clinical Trials nurses/practitioners at the Centre for Nephrology, Royal Free Hospital. Professor Wheeler is an Associate Editor of NDT and Member of the Editorial Board of JASN.
PRESENTATION SUMMARIES Keynote Presentation From cell culture to clinical trial: Spleen Tyrosine Kinase (SYK) as a novel therapeutic target in IgA nephropathy Professor Fred Tam In my talk, I shall share our experience of how laboratory research may be useful in identifying novel therapeutic targets in kidney diseases. The challenge and excitement of setting up clinical trials will be discussed. The recent work with Spleen Tyrosine Kinase (SYK) in renal diseases will be used as an example. Career Development Talk Dr Claire Sharpe Career Story In my talk I will outline my career journey, the highs and the lows! I will talk about the opportunities and the challenges that being a clinical academic can offer and how I have attempted to balance my work and home life. How to get your work published Professor David Wheeler Interactive Session This session will cover key points in writing a manuscript in order to enhance your chances of publication. The choice of Journal will be discussed and the stages of the submissions process explained. Communications with the editor and responses to the reviewers comments will be covered using examples of submitted papers.
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