The lab includes a multi-disciplinary team of child and adolescent psychiatrists, psychiatrists, psychologists, engineers, experts in machine learning and artificial intelligence, and statisticians.
The lab is led by Professor Samuele Cortese.
EPI Members
- Professor Samuele Cortese, NIHR Research Professor
- Dr Alessio Bellato, EPI Lab Deputy Lead, Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Dr Miguel Garcia Argibay, Senior Research Fellow
- Dr Christos Christogiannis, Senior Research Fellow
- Miss Sulagna Roy, Senior Research Assistant
- Dr Anoop Kadan, Lecturer in Machine Learning
- Mr Joshua Hyde, Senior Research Assistant
- Mr Ahmad Alkout, PhD Researcher
- Mr Thomas Easdale-Cheele, Student
- Ms Tanya Palmer, BA (Hons), MA
Key Project: PETRA: PErsonalising the pharmacological TReatment of ADHD
This project, funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) via a Research Professorship awarded to Professor Samuele Cortese, aims to develop and test a tool to support shared decision making for the personalised selection of ADHD medications for children and adolescents.
We are developing the tool based on individual participant data from randomised controlled trials of ADHD medications and real-world data from electronic healthcare records. We will start testing the tool in a feasibility randomised controlled trial in September 2026. Further updates will follow.
Spotlight
May 2026: You can now access our Evidence-Based Interventions for ADHD (EBI-ADHD) platform here.
This is a freely available, user friendly, evidence placed platform that brings together the best available research on how different treatments proposed for ADHD work and how safe they are. It helps clinicians, people with ADHD and their carers, guideline developers, and other decision-makers make informed choices.
Contact us
EPI Research Administrator - epilab@southampton.ac.uk.
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External Members
- Dr Corentin Gosling, EPI Co-Director (Methodology)
- Dr Marco Solmi
- Dr Anneka Tomlinson
- Dr Antoine Stocker
Affiliate Members
Former Members
- Dr Irem Ece Eraydin
- Dr Robert Marhenke
- Dr Katherine McGinn
- Dr Gonzalo Arrondo Ostíz
- Dr Valeria Parlatini
- Dr Guilherme Veronesi
Visitors
- Ms Martine Long
- Dr Maria Pia Lizio
Former Visitors
- Dr Lucrezia Arturi
- Dr Lucie Jurek
- Mr Mikail Nourredine
- Dr Fabio Tarantino
- Dr Daniele Pirolo
- Dr Emanuele Labruna
- Ms Marta Prandini
- Dr Maddalena Bianchetti
- Dr Nurşen Bozkoyun
- Dr Anna Pezzella
- Dr Sara Mannarini
- Dr Stéphanie Bourion-Bedes
- Ms Sara Loi
- Ms Morena Barila
- Mr Miguel Bernabe
Publications
Funding
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)
- European Research Council