ECR tour of the Spark: Home of the National Centre for Child Health Technology
10:00 to
11:00
Early Career Researchers are invited to express their interest in a visit to The SPARK on 15 October 2026, offering a guided tour of Sheffield Children's world-leading child health technology and research facility. Places are limited to 20 attendees and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis, subject to sufficient interest.
Deadline: Please submit your expression of interest by 5:00pm on 8 October 2026.
Registration opens, Lunch and Stalls
12:00 to
13:30
v Ballroom
Welcome
13:30 to
13:45
v Memorial Hall
Early Career Researcher Afternoon
Early Career Researcher Afternoon
Keynote Talk
13:45 to
14:15
v Memorial Hall
Keynote, 20 min talk, 10 min Q&A
Speaker:
Terence Stephenson.
Nuffield Professor of Child Health.
Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.
Early Career Researcher Afternoon
Interactive Sessions
14:15 to
15:15
v Memorial Hall
Interactive roundtable dicussions
Break
Break
Stalls and Posters
15:15 to
15:45
v Ballroom
Early Career Researcher Afternoon
Early Career Researcher Afternoon
Characterisation of hESC- and human bowel-derived neurosphere-like-bodies using tissue clearing and confocal microscopy
15:45 to
15:55
v Memorial Hall
Speaker:
Claudia Koh.
Alder Hey Children's Hospital.
Early Career Researcher Afternoon
Diagnosis of bacterial from viral infection in children with fever using host-RNA expression biomarkers
15:55 to
16:05
v Memorial Hall
Speaker:
Rebecca Womersley.
Post-doctoral Researcher.
Imperial College London.
Early Career Researcher Afternoon
Early-life exposures and the genomic landscape of childhood B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
16:05 to
16:15
v Memorial Hall
Speaker:
Leila Ellis.
Wellcome GW4 Clinical Doctoral Fellow.
University of Bristol.
Early Career Researcher Afternoon
Molecular mechanisms in chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis and their therapeutic potential
16:15 to
16:25
v Memorial Hall
Speaker:
Amandine Charras.
Tenure Track Fellow.
University of Liverpool.
Early Career Researcher Afternoon
Chimerism as a relapse indicator in children with juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia following haematopoietic stem cell transplantation
16:25 to
16:35
v Memorial Hall
Speaker:
Susanne Kricke Orszulik.
Lead Healthcare Scientist.
Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Early Career Researcher Afternoon
Added value of diffusion MRI surface-based features for focal lesion detection in paediatric epilepsy
16:35 to
16:45
v Memorial Hall
Speaker:
Yi Jie Li.
PhD Student.
UCL.
Early Career Researcher Afternoon
The Unlikely Trialist: A Research Journey
16:45 to
17:15
v Memorial Hall
Keynote Speech and Q&A
Speaker:
Daniel Perry.
NIHR Research Professor & Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon.
Alder Hey Children's Hospital.
Early Career Researcher Afternoon
Abstract Winner announcement and Closing remarks
17:15 to
17:30
v Memorial Hall
Networking
Networking
Reception Drinks
18:30 to
19:30
Networking
Dinner and Networking
19:30 to
23:00