Grainne McAlonan

Professor Grainne McAlonan is a Clinical Academic and Professor of Translational Neuroscience at King’s College London. As Director of the NIHR-Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre and its Theme Lead for Child and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, a group leader within the MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders at KCL and a P.I. within the pan-European Autism Innovative Medicine Studies-2-Trials (AIMS-2-Trials) the world’s largest grant for autism research, she aims to ensure ‘pull-through’ from the bench to the bedside. She is responsible for human studies across the lifespan; from fetal/neonatal/infant brain imaging studies to pharmacology studies in neurodiverse adults. This research is informed by close links with stakeholders and rooted in neuroscience.