Oxford Precision Psychiatry Lab
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
We are an international multidisciplinary group of researchers, clinicians (both psychiatrists and psychologists), statisticians, methodologists and students who are passionate about improving the lives of people with mental illness across the lifespan.
We are based at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford and we aim to improve the current treatment practice in the NHS and across the world, using innovative approaches from artificial intelligence and machine learning, to digital mental health and bioethicists.
We work closely with people with lived experience of mental health issues, with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and with many other Trusts and organisations across the UK.
The McPin Foundation
From a small family foundation to a specialist mental health research charity, McPin has grown but kept those with lived experience of mental health issues at the heart of the mission to transform research.
We were established in 2007 by Dr Nick McNally and Dr Vanessa Pinfold (“McPin”) as a small grant-giving family foundation. Until 2012 we focussed on awarding grants to organisations undertaking education, research and community projects. In 2012, we refocussed our activities, becoming a dedicated mental health research organisation, with a focus on promoting lived experience expertise in research. From April 2013 we were joined by researchers from the Rethink Mental Illness research team.
Today, we work with researchers as well as public involvement, policy and communications professionals to improve mental health through research.
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The project is funded by the National Institute for Health Research, the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre, the Oxford and Thames Valley Applied Research Collaboration, Oxford University and Angelini Pharma.
