A researcher has been awarded £1.7 million for his project to improve the lives of patients with severe mental illness.
Dr Maxime Taquet, a clinical lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, has been awarded the 2024 Sir Jules Thorn Award for Biomedical Research.
Dr Taquet’s project, Instability Measurement to Predict and Alter Clinical Trajectories of Severe Mental Illness, aims to make severe mental illness more predictable and manageable.
He said: “I feel incredibly fortunate to be part of such a supportive and nurturing department and Biomedical Research Centre with incredible mentors.”
The Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust offers a single award each year to a researcher in the early years of an established research and academic career.
The researcher must be working at the leading edge of international science.
Funding of up to £1.7 million is available over a maximum of five years to support a programme of translational biomedical research.
Dr Taquet successfully secured the nomination of the University of Oxford for the award.
Applications are made via UK medical schools and NHS organisations, with only one application allowed per organisation.
Dr Taquet is an Oxford University Clinical Academic Graduate School clinical academic trainee on the NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Pathway.
Before becoming a clinical lecturer, he was an academic clinical fellow and, before that, an academic foundation trainee, both also with Oxford University Clinical Academic Graduate School.
Maribel Howe
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