2016 Award Winners
Essay Prize Winner
Sam Kleeman
‘Application of a miRNA signature to the non-invasive diagnosis of Barrett’s Oesophagus’.
Sam Kleeman has just completed an intercalated BSc (BA) in Pathology at the Medical Research Council Cancer Unit, Cambridge.
F1/F2 Research Award
Dr Patrik Bachtiger
‘Mechanisms of Cell Death in Acute on Chronic Liver Failure: Necrosis, Apoptosis and the Emerging Role of Nucleosomes’.
Dr Bachtiger is currently undergoing his Academic Foundation Year 2 in Intensive Care Medicine at University College London Hospital (UCLH).
Dr Paul Middleton
‘Characterisation of neutrophil and regulatory T-cell/effector T-cell interactions in alcohol-related liver disease.’.
Dr Middleton is currently undergoing his Academic Foundation Year 2 at Kings College Hospital, London.
Medical Nurse Recognition Award
Kay Greveson
‘The development of IBD Passport (www.ibdpassport.com), a non-profit evidence-based online travel resource to educate patients with IBD and healthcare professionals who advise them’.
Nurse Kay Greveson is Lead Inflammatory Bowel disease nurse specialist at the Royal Free Hospital NHS foundation trust.
Student Prizes
James Wadkin
Regulation and the Functional Role of Tetraspanin CD151 in the Development of Chronic Liver Disease and Hepatocellular Carcinoma’.
James Wadkin is a fourth year medical student currently undertaking an intercalated BSc in Clinical Sciences at the Centre for Liver Research, University of Birmingham.
Katherine Mckay
‘Mechanistic Basis of Cognitive Impairment in Cholestatic Liver Disease’.
Katherine McKay is just completing an intercalated Masters by Research of Medical Sciences at the Institute of Cellular Medicine at Newcastle University.
Sivesh Kamarajah
‘Expression and Functional Characterisation of Scavenger Receptor F-1 and Zonula Occludens-2 in Chronic Liver Disease and Malignancy’.
Sivesh Kamarajah has just completed an intercalated BMedSci (Clinical Sciences) at the Centre for Liver Research (CLR) at the University of Birmingham.
Fatima Ali
‘Morbidity and Mortality Associated with Cytomegalovirus Infection in Liver Transplant Recipients – Structural Characterisation of a Putative Cytomegalovirus Drug Target’.
Fatima Ali has just completed an integrated BSc in Clinical Sciences at University College London. She will begin her 4th year at medical school in September also at UCL.