Medicine at the Crick | What Can Development Tell Us About Disease?

Hybrid event taking place virtually and in person, organised by The Francis Crick Institute, London

Our Medicine at the Crick event series showcases major advances in biomedical science and raises awareness of the medical implications of major scientific advances. Interested members of the Crick and wider UK biomedical community are invited to attend. Members of the academic medical press are also invited. Each event comprises a series of talks and a panel discussion, followed by networking for in person attendees.

More about the event

Hosted by Alex Gould (The Francis Crick Institute), this 12th edition of Medicine at the Crick will focus on recent advances in our understanding of how embryonic development influences adult disease.

The early-life environment is well established to impact upon infant health and disease. It is less widely known that it also influences the risk of adult diseases manifested many decades later. Developmentally “programmed” adult diseases are diverse and include type 2 diabetes, asthma, cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative conditions and even some cancers. Research in this area, the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD), is clinically important but surprisingly still not on the radar of many developmental biologists. This Medicine at the Crick event aims to raise awareness of DOHaD research. It will highlight emerging organogenic and epigenetic links between embryonic development and adult disease. It will explore how diseases such as cancer may involve inappropriate reruns of developmental genetic programmes. Key impacts of DOHaD research on public health policy will also be discussed.

Programme

Panel Chair: Professor Keith Godfrey (University of Southampton)

Speakers include: Professor Lucilla Poston CBE (Kings College London), Professor Richard Gilbertson (University of Cambridge), Dr Marika Charalambous (Kings College London) and Professor Ralph DeBerardinis (UT Southwestern Medical Centre).

Lectures will be followed by a Q&A panel discussion and a networking reception for in person attendees until 19:00.

You can find a more detailed programme here.

Registration

Please register for free here.

We will host this as a hybrid event, with an in-person audience joined by others online. Virtual ticket holders will receive Zoom joining details in advance of the webinar and in-person ticket holders will be emailed with full attendance details closer to the event.

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