The Dr Falk/Core awards recognise those who bring new knowledge and insight to the field of gastroenterology and hepatology.
Award winners 2012
Essay Prize Winner
Edwin Halliday, UCL Medical School and the Department of Neurophysiology, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust
Title of the project: The performance validity of breath sample analysis in the diagnosis of hepatic encephalopathy in patients with cirrhosis
Project Supervisor: Dr Marsha Y Morgan
Student Bursaries
George Couch, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge
Title of the project: Non-endoscopic screening biomarkers for squamous-cell carcinoma of the oesophagus
Project Supervisors: Dr Rebecca Fitzgerald and Dr Pierre Lao-Sirieix
Greta Pells, Institute of Cellular Medicine (Hepatology), Newcastle University
Title of the project: The genetic basis of fatigue in PBC: Insights into pathogenesis and targets for treatment
Project Supervisor: Professor D E Jones
Rebeca Carter, Department of Hepatology, Royal Free Hospital
Title of the project: The role of maternal obesity and developmental programming on offspring pancreatic function
Project Supervisor: Dr J A Oben
Rebecca Topley, School of Biomedical sciences, Queen's University Belfast
Title of the project: Factors influencing abnormal glandular morphogenesis in colorectal cancer and verification in human tissue. A model for lumen formation via the PTEN-cdc42 pathway
Project Supervisor: Professor Campbell, Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology
Leah Rosenbaum, Departments of Hepatology and Cellular Pathology, Royal Free Campus, University College Medical School
Title of the project: The factors responsible for the susceptibility to develop alcohol-related cirrhosis; a histological study utilizing digital image analysis
Project Supervisors: Dr Marsha Y Morgan and Professor A P Dhillon
Mohammed Syed, Department of Medicine, UCL Medical School and the Department of Neurophysiology, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust
Title of the project: The diagnostic and predictive validity of a new multichannel assessment technique for the evaluation of the EEG in patients with cirrhosis
Project Supervisors: Dr M Y Morgan and Mr Clive Jackson
Adam Levine, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Division of Medicine, University College London
Title of the project: The genetics of inflammatory bowel disease in Ashkenazi Jewish multiplex extended kindreds
Project Supervisor: Professor Anthony W Segal
Richard Wells, Cambridge Research Institute, CRUK; Affiliated to Department of Medicine, Cambridge University
Title of the project: Finding immune neoantigens in a pancreatic cancer model
Project Supervisors: Professor D T Fearon and Professor D Tuveson
Nicola Britton, Gastrointestinal Laboratory, Division of Applied Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen
Title of the project: A comprehensive analysis of the anti-bacterial properties of bilirubin against common human pathogens found in neonatal sepsis
Project Supervisors: Dr Richard Hansen, Dr Georgina Hold and Dr Mike Munro
Announcing the 2013 Awards
Announcing the 2013 Awards
For those committed to furthering research or patient care, this year's awards provide the opportunity to achieve national recognition as well as the financial support to take your career further.
This year's prizes include:
▸ One £1000 essay prize for medical students on BSc or MRes courses.
▸ Six £1000 bursaries for medical students taking full-time science degrees.
▸ Two £2200 bursaries to support research for F1/F2 doctors.
▸ And NEW this year three £500 educational or training grants for nurses in primary or secondary care.
Applications close at 17:00 on 1 February 2013.
For enquiries please contact Alice Kington at Core on 020 563 9994 or research@corecharity.org.uk