Professor Golam Khandaker
MBBS, MPhil, PhD, FRCPsych
Current positions
Professor of Psychiatry and Immunology and MRC Investigator
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
Golam Khandaker is Professor of Psychiatry at Bristol Medical School, Head of Immunopsychiatry and Experimental Medicine Programme at the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Parthership NHS Trust. Golam's research focuses on identifying and validating novel immunological mechanisms and potential treatment targets for major psychiatric disorders particularly depression and schizophrenia using epidemiological cohort studies, genetic analysis, and early-phase clinical trials. The key impetus for this work is to move immunotherapies closer to psychiatric practice through innovative translational research. He is also interested in life-course epidemiology of mental disorders, physical and psychiatric multimorbidity especially aetiology, early detection, and prevention of cardiometabolic disease in people with schiozophrenia and depression, and use of routine clinical data for health research.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
CHECKPOINT: Finding immune and metabolic pathways to severe mental illness
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2024 to 31/03/2029
8073 MRC IEU - Tim Larsen consumables
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
18/09/2023 to 01/10/2027
Integrative Epidemiology Unit
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2023 to 31/03/2028
8073 MR/W014416/1 via Cardiff_Physical and mental health multimobidity across the lifespan
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/12/2021 to 30/11/2025
Psychosis Immune Mechanism Stratified Medicine Study (PIMS)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/08/2021 to 31/05/2024
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
01/06/2024A novel biomarker of interleukin 6 activity and clinical and cognitive outcomes in depression
Psychoneuroendocrinology
Genomic insights into the comorbidity between type 2 diabetes and schizophrenia
Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany)
Neuroinflammation in Comorbid Depression in Alzheimer’s Disease: a pilot study using post-mortem brain tissue.
Neuroscience Applied
The relationship of within-individual and between-individual variation in mental health with bodyweight
PLoS ONE
Role of Inflammation in Depressive and Anxiety Disorders, Affect, and Cognition: Genetic and Non-Genetic Findings in the Lifelines Cohort Study.
Role of Inflammation in Depressive and Anxiety Disorders, Affect, and Cognition: Genetic and Non-Genetic Findings in the Lifelines Cohort Study.