2017 Award Winners
Dietitian Recognition Award
Kim Jones BSC (HONS) RD
Monitoring of fat soluble vitamin blood levels in patients with Pancreatic Exocrine Insufficiency (PEI) in the community.
Mrs Kim Jones is an Advanced Gastroenterology Community Dietitian based at Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Huntingdon.
Essay Prize Winner
Diya Kapila
Development and Optimisation of a PCR-Based Assay for Study of Gut Microbiota-Derived Bile-Metabolising Enzymes.
Diya Kapila has nearly completed her fifth year at Imperial College School of Medicine.
Dr Joseph Christopher
Quantifying Intestinal Stem Cell Dynamics Using Microsatellite Sequencing
Dr Joseph Christopher completed a four year PhD at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute in 2016. He has just completed his 5th year at medical school at University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine.
F1/F2 Research Award
Dr Laura Heath
Very low energy diets as a treatment for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a randomised controlled trial.
Dr Laura Heath is a Foundation Year 2 Doctor at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
She has recently completed four month academic block research rotation at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Services, University of Oxford.
Dahlia Hopmeier
Understanding the Role of Gene Regulation in the Pathogenesis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Dr Dahlia Hopmeier is a Foundation Year 2 Doctor at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. She has recently completed a research rotation at Guy’s Division of Genetics and Molecular Medicine.
SPR trainee Audit / Quality Improvement Award
Dr Palak Trivedi
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Care Delivery Following Liver Transplantation for Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
Dr Palak Trivedi is an Academic Clinical Lecturer and Specialist Registrar in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the National institute for Health Research (NIHR) Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and Centre for Liver Research, University of Birmingham.
Student Prizes
Maja Kopczynska
Developing Genomic Biomarkers to Predict Cancer Risk in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Maja Kopczynska has just completed a BSc in Medical Sciences with Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Imperial College School of Medicine, London. In September she takes up her 4th year medical studies at Cardiff University.
Haarith Ndiaye
Sensitising Liver Cancer Cells to Apoptosis through Targeted Inhibition of Fatty Acid Activation
Haarith Ndiaye has just completed a BSc in Clinical Sciences with University College London Institute for Liver and Digestive Health. In September, he takes up his 4th year medical studies at UCL University.
William Collier
The Effect of Hypoxia on TRAIL mediated pancreatic cancer cell apoptosis
William Collier has just completed an Intercalated BSc in Clinical Sciences at the Centre for Liver Research at the University of Birmingham. In September he takes up his final year of medical studies at the University of Birmingham.
Aneesh Sharma
‘Determining the Association Between SNPs in the Disease Modifier Genes PCSK7, PNPLA3, TM6SF2 and MBOAT7 and the Development of Significant Liver Injury in Hereditary Haemochromatosis’
Aneesh Sharma has just completed an intercalated BSc in Clinical Sciences at University College London Institute of Molecular Psychiatry. He will return to take up his 4th year medical studies at UCL in September.