
Alex Kwong
@asfkwong
Psychiatric Epidemiologist • Wellcome Senior Research Fellow • Group Leader @life_epi_psych • Youth Mental Health/Longitudinal data/Genetics/Football. 🇬🇧🇭🇰
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Morning to all those at #WCPG2024 If you’re interested in integrating genetics into longitudinal or life-course data then pop by our symposium at 3pm with amazing speakers Robyn Wootton Poppy Grimes @pzg.bsky.social Dr Ruby Tsang 🇦🇺🇭🇰 karmel choi ISPG




New 3-year research fellow role at UCL Psychiatry! Come work with Dr Gemma Lewis and me on eating disorders and depression research. Any questions, please just get in touch with us 😊. More details on team, project, and role below 👇 ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

📢Job alert! We're looking for an enthusiastic research fellow to join our Mood Disorders team (MHM Midlands Translational Centre MHM Midlands Translational Centre): edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat… We are looking for a skilled candidate with expertise in sleep and mood disorders. The Institute for Mental Health (IMH) Steven Marwaha


Congratulations to Isabell Brikell for winning the Rising Star award and massive congrats to all the other nominees 👏 It was a pleasure to share the nominations with you all and thanks to the Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health panel and to Aja Louise Murray for the nomination

New #PhD opportunity Suicide and Self-Harm Research, Bristol looking at protective factors for #selfharm - 4 years of funding - Great supervisory team & supportive research group - Apply by 4pm on 13th December - more details here: shorturl.at/1NxUO

🌟PhD Opportunity🌟 Investigate the links between opioids, other analgesics, and cognitive decline and dementia. Supervised by myself, Simon Cox, MarioniGroup, Sara Hägg, & Barbara Nicholl. Learn more about our PrecisionMed_PhD project and apply below!⬇️ usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-medi…

🚨Still a few more days (Nov 28)🚨 to apply to the PhD I'm co-supervising with Golam Khandaker Aimee Hanson Holly Fraser Join our excellent team in the MRC IEU and hone your health #DataScience skills by identifying treatable subtypes of depression findaphd.com/phds/project/b…

#GettingGenomeMe – Genomics Researcher Profile Click below to hear from Poppy Grimes @pzg.bsky.social on using genomic and epidemiological approaches to investigate adolescent depression Lifecourse Epidemiology And Psychiatry (LEAP) Edinburgh Neuroscience Mental Health at the University of Edinburgh ClinicalBrainScience Read more here: onehealthgenomics.ed.ac.uk/poppy-grimes


🚨New paper out in Nature Mental Health from my work with Erin C Dunn, ScD, MPH @MGH_RI! We found that childhood adversity leads to epigenetic changes that can increase OR reduce risk for depression. Let me explain... 🧵(1/7) Read the paper here: nature.com/articles/s4422…


Want to get out of Dodge? Do a postdoc Universitetet i Oslo! You will be using MoBa Study and registers to study intergenerational transmission and GxE for #MentalHealth and #education using Behavior Genetics Association and PGC Consortium approaches. Please share! jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…


We invite manuscripts for the Special Issue 2026 “Transdiagnostic Approaches to Child and Adolescent Mental Health”. Edited by myself, Dr Giorgia Michelini (she/her), Prof. Catharina Hartman, Dr. Stephen Becker, Henrik Larsson, Emily Jones, Dr. James Li, samantha lynch & Dr. Jill Ehrenreich-May!

Really pleased to share I passed my PhD with no corrections today! 😁 So grateful for the support from my excellent supervisors, family, and friends 💙 Sue Fletcher-Watson Alex Kwong Daniel Smith





New paper by super Poppy Grimes @pzg.bsky.social in Nature Mental Health looks at network temperature 🌡️, a new parameter for examining stability of depression symptoms across adolescence. Thanks to Children of the 90s UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies #ABCD Medical Research Council Wellcome Paper: nature.com/articles/s4422… Thread ⬇️
