Advancing research to improve the lives of people living with severe mental illness. Funded by UK Research and Innovation as part of the Mental Health Platform.

Cardiff University
Joined January 2025
🗞️🎉 Thousands are being recruited for GlobalMinds, a major new severe mental illness study aiming to transform personalised care. Congratulations to our colleagues Professor James Walters and Dr Elliott Rees on their involvement in this exciting study. cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/3025…
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📢 Experts by experience, researchers, health and voluntary sector professionals - There's still time to register for the next @ImprovementCym Mental Health and Wellbeing Research and Evidence Network meeting on Wednesday 28 January in Wrexham. It's a chance to deepen your understanding of the Open Access Mental Health Support model - the framework that is driving the transformation of mental health services across Wales. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Register today: bit.ly/4sNlNwz
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🗞️ Dyma Hwb yr Ymennydd a Genomeg: canolfan newydd yn rhannu cynlluniau i hyrwyddo ymchwil iechyd meddwl 🔗 cardiff.ac.uk/cy/news/view/2…
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🗞️ Meet the Brain and Genomics Hub: new centre shares plans to advance mental health research. 🔗 cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2968…
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Brain and Genomics Hub retweeted
Fantastic to be part of @BrainGenHub launch yesterday - working together towards improving diagnosis & understanding of bipolar & psychotic disorders. And realising our goal of making our research hub a true community
Hub lead, Professor James Walters emphasised that current approaches to mental health diagnosis and treatment often result in a delay in receiving effective treatments and life-changing symptoms from medications. 💊 The Brain and Genomics Hub hopes to change that.
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Excited to be exhibiting at @BrainGenHub’s launch today. We’re thrilled to be partnering with the Hub for their vital research into severe mental illness, working to improve diagnosis and treatment for people living with these conditions.
🧠✨⏰ Today we're making it official. It's time to meet the Brain and Genomics Hub at our launch event. Stay tuned for updates throughout the day. #BrainGenomicsHub #LaunchDay #Neuroscience #Genomics
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Brain and Genomics Hub retweeted
📢The UKRI Mental Health Platform ECR Fellowship Awards Expressions of Interest submissions are open NOW! Secure up to £300k for SMI research (1–3 yrs). Start by submitting a short EoI. 👉 bit.ly/expression-interest #ECRFellowship
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The theme of Mental Health Awareness Week 2025 is: community. 👫👬👭 Seven days = 7 ways to join our community this Mental Health Awareness Week.
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☀️🚨Applications for this year's Summer School in Brain Disorders Research are now open! Join us for an introduction to the cutting-edge research happening at our centre🔍🌍 🗓️ 14 - 17 July 2025 📍 Cardiff University Apply now:🔗cardiff.ac.uk/centre-neurops…
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Brain and Genomics Hub retweeted
Join us on March 4th 2025 for the Early Career Researcher Awards Webinar! Applications for our ECR Fellowship Awards open March 1st with funding up to £300k for UK-based researchers. Register here: bit.ly/mhp-ecr-webinar2025 Send advance questions to [email protected]
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Brain and Genomics Hub retweeted
Replying to @MHPlatform
@MHPlatform Brain and Genomics Hub socials up and running. Come and join us
👋 🌍 Hello world, we are the Brain and Genomics Hub! We are a new research centre focused on improving the lives of people living with severe mental illness.
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Brain and Genomics Hub retweeted
The Brain & Genomics Hub aims to investigate ways to improve diagnosis of psychosis, schizophrenia, bipolar and schizoaffective disorder and identify new targets for treatment. Follow them for more! #mentalhealthresearch
👋 🌍 Hello world, we are the Brain and Genomics Hub! We are a new research centre focused on improving the lives of people living with severe mental illness.
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Croeso @BrainGenHub! ✨ We are excited to be working together on this new research hub which aims to better understand severe mental illness. Watch this space! 👀
👋 🌍 Hello world, we are the Brain and Genomics Hub! We are a new research centre focused on improving the lives of people living with severe mental illness.
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🎉 Great to welcome the new @BrainGenHub, led by our director Prof James Walters (@drjameswalters). This exciting new hub is part of the @MHPlatform & the team will undertake research to better understand severe mental illness and improve the lives of people living with SMIs.
👋 🌍 Hello world, we are the Brain and Genomics Hub! We are a new research centre focused on improving the lives of people living with severe mental illness.
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