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We went out to celebrate the arrival of Emma and Vicent to the lab!
Emma is a postdoctoral researcher with extensive experience in electronic health records research, and Vicent is a visiting psychiatrist with a PhD, who will be with us for 3 months.
Co-led by Consultants Emanuele Osimo and Catherine Hatfield, the CPFT Mood Disorders Research Clinic is now up and running!
The clinic aims to support people aged 18 and above across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and their families with comprehensive, evidence-based psychiatric assessments and guidance on future treatment. We also offer opportunities to take part in research projects to improve care for mood disorders, including pioneering innovative treatments and new therapies.
People with treatment resistant depression who are interested in taking part should visit the clinic website: https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/moodclinic where it is also possible to refer oneself.
The Early Intervention Mission has now reached 355 participants!
Congratulations to the whole team, and particularly to the resident doctors and associates doing the bulk of the recruitment!
Last week we had a nice evening together – and even had matching T-shirts!
This was to thank everyone for their hard work this year, and wish everyone a happy New Year!
Congratulations to our PhD students – from left to right: Benji, then Ben (postdoc), Graham (PI), Jerry, Shrankla, Jim, and Ben (who spent some time with us in the past) – for a successful Student Symposium!
Emanuele was on Thursday awarded the Royal College of Psychiatrists Early Career Academic Researcher of the Year 2025.
The photo shows Emanuele with Graham at the ceremony, holding the award.
Read the full shortlists on the Royal College website.
Read the news launch on the CPFT website.
Congratulations to the Early Intervention Mission (EIM) team on reaching a major milestone—200 participants recruited!
Thank you to all participants, researchers, and collaborators who made this possible! 🎉
The EIM study is a pioneering UK-wide initiative aimed at transforming our understanding and treatment of early psychosis.
By collecting longitudinal data, biological samples, and digital assessments from individuals at risk or with a history of psychosis, the study seeks to develop precision medicine tools for early intervention. Its goals include improving risk stratification, tailoring prevention strategies, and building a research register to support future studies. This milestone marks a significant step towards more personalised, effective mental health care for those affected by psychosis.
We are pleased to announce that we have just obtained a grant from Rosetrees Trust to advance the development of MOZART, our risk prediction model for treatment resistance in first episode psychosis (EHR, clinical risk prediction modelling). You can read more about this in our Projects page.
(We’ve also just been told we were unsuccessful with another large grant application… c’est la vie…)
The Early Intervention Mission, our national NIHR study aiming to improve psychosis research infrastructure and recruit participants to donate a sample as well as their data for research has reached another milestone!
