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Grainne  Mcalonan

Grainne Mcalonan PhD

Psychiatry, Neuroscience
London, England, United Kingdom

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Grainne McAlonan is a Professor of Translational Neuroscience based in the Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London. She studied Medicine at the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London and completed a PhD in Behavioural Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. After clinical and research posts in the UK, she worked for over a decade at The University of Hong Kong before returning to the IoPPN. She uses MRI as a translational tool to link brain and behavior in people with neurodevelopmental conditions such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and to ‘back’ (and ‘forward’) translate to laboratory models.

Her current research is informed by her work in the National ADHD and Autism Service for Adults at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) and she is the Lead for the Child and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Theme in the NIHR-Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health at SLaM and IoPPN.

Prof McAlonan is a group leader within the MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders at IoPPN and is a lead investigator within the EU-AIMS-2-TRIALS consortium – a European network hosting the world’s largest grant for autism research. She is responsible for fetal/neonatal/infant brain imaging studies of children vulnerable to neurodevelopmental conditions and for pharmacology studies in adults with ASD.
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