Declan Murphy, M.D.

Professor of Psychiatry and Brain Maturation, King’s College London

SFARI Investigator Website

Declan Murphy is the Mortimer D. Sackler Professor of Translational Neurodevelopment, head of the Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Science, director of the Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopment and deputy director of the Medical Research Council Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders at King’s College London. He is also the European Union representative on the steering committee of the Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials (ABC-CT) research study. He led the European Autism Interventions – A Multicentre Study for Developing New Medications (EU-AIMS) and is currently the academic project lead of the Autism Innovative Medicine Studies-2-Trials (AIMS-2-Trials). He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers with more than 100 of these papers on the topic of autism.

Funded Projects

Autism Innovative Medicine Studies-2-Trials (AIMS-2-Trials): A large-scale collaborative autism research project

Awarded: 2018
Award Type: Research

SFARI Funded Publications

Patterns of connectome variability in autism across five functional activation tasks. Findings from the leap project. Looden T., Floris D.L., Llera A., Chauvi R.J., Charman T., Banaschewski T., Murphy D., Marquand A.F., Buitelaar J.K., Beckmann C.F., AIMS-2-TRIALS group

Autism is associated with inter-individual variations of gray and white matter morphology. Mei T., Forde N.J., Floris D.L., Dell’Acqua F., Stones R., Ilioska I., Durston S., Moessnang C., Banaschewski T., Holt R.J., Baron-Cohen S., Rausch A., Loth E., Oakley B., Charman T., Ecker C., Murphy D., EU-AIMS LEAP Group, Beckmann C.F., Llera A., Buitelaar J.K.

Connectome-wide mega-analysis reveals robust patterns of atypical functional connectivity in autism. Ilioska I., Oldehinkel M., Llera A., Chopra S., Looden T., Chauvin R., Van Rooij D., Floris D.L., Tillmann J., Moessnang C., Banaschewski T., Holt R.J., Loth E., Charman T., Murphy D., Ecker C., Mennes M., Beckmann C.F., Fornito A., Buitelaar J.K., EU-AIMS LEAP Group.