2015 Award Winners
Essay Prize Winner
Mario Lepore
‘The Diagnostic Accuracy of HBV-DNA Quantification Using Dried Blood Spots in Chronic HBV Carriers in The Gambia’.
Mario Lepore is a fifth year medical student at Imperial College School of Medicine, London.
F1/F2 Research Award
Natalie To
‘Effect of Smoking on the Natural History of Crohn’s Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.’.
Natalie is currently an Academic Foundation Trainee (F1) in Gastroenterology at St James University Hospital, Leeds.
Dr Diana Yung
‘Small-bowel Capsule Endoscopy in the Young Anaemic Patient’.
Dr Yung is currently a Foundation Year 1 doctor working in General Medicine at Victoria Hospital Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Nurse Prize
Alison Thomas
‘The Development of Satellite Clinics in Primary Care to Empower Patients with Dyspepsia to Self Manage Symptoms, Use Medication Effectively and Partner With HCP’s in an Appropriate and Effective Manner’.
Alison Thomas is a Clinical Nurse Specialist/Nurse Endoscopist at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, South Wales.
Student Prizes
Ashley Retchless
‘Lymphocytes as Vehicles for Hepatitis C Virus Transmission to the Liver’.
Ashley is currently intercalating in a degree in Clinical Science. He will return to medical school In Birmingham in the next academic year.
Zhi Yang Low
‘The predisposition to infection in patients with cirrhosis: rationale for drug design based on novel functional and structural studies of the albumin’.
Zhi is currently completing an integrated BSc in Clinical Sciences at University College London.
Rosie Simson
‘Primary Human Enteroids: A Translational Research Tool to Study Therapeutic Implications of Modulating TGFB Signalling in Inflammatory Bowel Disease’.
Rosie is currently undertaking a Master of Research (MRes) at the Institute of Cellular Medicine at Newcastle University. She will be returning to her medical studies next academic year.
Nataniel Tan
‘Structural and Chemical Biology of Noroviral Proteases – a major therapeutic target for structure-based design’.
Nataniel is currently intercalating in a degree in Clinical Science. He will return to medical school at University College London in the next academic year.