Hosted by the Academy of Medical Sciences

A unique cross-specialty event designed to bring clinical academics together to present their work, network with one another and with senior researchers. CATAC will next be held on Thursday 19 May 2022.

CATAC 2022 will be an in-person event in Bristol, with live-streamed talks. It will be hosted by Professor Jane Norman FMedSci and Professor John Iredale FRSE FMedSci. As in past years, the conference will include post-doctoral and pre-doctoral oral competitions, as well as poster competitions.

CATAC 2022 will have the following competitions:

• Post-Doctoral Plenary Competition – 10-minute oral presentation, followed by 5 minutes of questions from the audience, scored by a panel of judges.
• Pre-Doctoral Plenary Competition – 5-minute oral presentation, followed by 2 minutes of questions from the audience, scored by a panel of judges.
• Poster Competitions – 2-minute presentation of poster, followed by 1 minute of questions, scored by a small number of judges. Posters will be grouped according to the following four categories:
  • Applied health services research; Epidemiology; Population health services
  • Cellular and molecular biology; Genetics
  • Inflammation; Infection; Immunity
  • Neurology; Neuroscience; Imaging; Technology

Abstract submission closes 18 February 2022

See the event webpage for further details