Pete started out as a business writer and editor before moving into healthcare communications and later the tech start-up world. He was a founding team member of Raremark (Xperiome) and held numerous roles in its journey from rare disease start-up to scale-up. Pete lives with several chronic conditions, including lifelong undiagnosed OCD.

Margherita works for Orchard OCD and manages their communications and fundraising. She experienced severe OCD during her adolescence and young adulthood. She is passionate about Orchard’s work to collaborate closely with interdisciplinary professionals and progress in developing new and better treatments for patients suffering from OCD. If you have any communications or fundraising queries, please […]

We have been awarded £10,000 from the National Lottery Awards for All scheme to fund part of our OCD video series. We are filming this series in 2023. A huge thank you to the National Lottery for making this happen.

We are pleased to have received funding from the Hospital Saturday Fund towards our OCD patient registry. The Hospital Saturday Fund is a registered charity whose aims are to provide assistance for registered health charities, hospices, medical organisations and individuals with a medical condition or disability.

Tracy works in local government in a strategy and policy team. She has lived with OCD for over 30 years and continues to learn about how this can impact life, and how it can be tackled, from her own experiences and those of other people. Tracy wants to support the work to find new treatments […]

We are thankful to Faiz for his continuous help and suggestions. Faiz’s background is in medical research and the pharmaceutical sector. He has practical experience of launching and publicising the work of non-profit organisations, especially in the field of healthcare and education. Faiz has a PhD. in Immunopharmacology from St. Thomas’ Hospital London.

We are pleased to be part of the Cambridge Social Ventures programme in the Centre for Social Innovation at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School. www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/faculty-research/centres/social-innovation/cambridge-social-ventures/

Orchard OCD is very pleased to be receiving funding from the Bally’s Foundation for a two-year project to build an international registry of OCD patients. Registries are crucially important for medical research as they can accelerate recruitment into clinical trials of potential treatments and increase our understanding of a disorder such as OCD by asking […]

Dr Lynne Drummond is an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at SW London and St George’s NHS Trust and Visiting Professor at the University of Hertfordshire.  She has worked in the area of OCD, anxiety, and mental health over the past 4 decades as both a clinician and researcher.  Publishing well over 100 articles in the academic press. […]

Dr. Jim Hagan is a Senior Research Fellow in Neurosciences at Sosei-Heptares, working on drug discovery programmes for neuropsychiatric indications. Previously, he was the CEO at GMEC, a not-for-profit company formed by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Imperial College, UCL, King’s College London and Queen Mary College London to foster biomedical translational research. He was […]

Dr. Carolyn Rodriguez is assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science at Stanford University, School of Medicine. She utilises her training as a psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and clinical researcher to innovate rapid-acting treatments to relieve the suffering of patients with severe mental illnesses, including Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. More about Carolyn. Rodriguez Lab.

Prof Trevor Robbins is a professor of cognitive neuroscience with an international reputation in the fields of cognitive neuroscience, behavioural neuroscience and psychopharmacology. He is Director of the University of Cambridge’s Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute (BCNI) and is leading a multi-million-pound research study into the neuroscience of OCD.