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Past Awards 2008

BSCR Spring Meeting/Joint with British Cardiovascular Society

2-3 June

Manchester Central Convention Centre

Professor David Eisner presented the Clinical Science Young Investigator Award to Paul Armstrong.

The Title that won the Poster Prize is:
"Linear Relationship Between Platelet Aggregation And Thromboxane A2 Production"

Molecular mechanisms of glucolipotoxicity in diabetes

University College Dublin, Ireland

24 - 26 March

The Clinical Science Young Investigator has been awarded to Marta Michalska.

The Title that won the Poster Prize is:
"The role of oxidants and anti-oxidants in beta cell function and integrity".

Past Awards 2007

Frontiers of Vascular Medicine 2007

Melbourne, Australia

26 - 28 October 2007

At the Frontiers of Vascular Medicine meeting, the Clinical Science Young Investigator Oral Award was presented to Sonja Tesonovic.

Sonja will receive a cheque and one year's free personal subscription to Clinical Science online.

The British Society for Cardiovascular Research Autumn Meeting

London, UK

24 - 25 September 2007

At the BSCR Autumn meeting, the Clinical Science Young Investigator Award was presented to Georghia Michael for her poster entitled:

Georghia will receive 250GBP and one year's free personal subscription to Clinical Science online.

At the ASBMB Experimental Biology meeting, the Clinical Science Young Investigator Award was presented to Dr Justin Grobe for his poster entitled:

Angiotensin-(1-7) prevents cardiac remodelling during angiotensin II-induced hypertension

Justin received US$500 and one year's free personal subscription to Clinical Science online

At The British Society for Cardiovascular Research Spring Meeting, the Clinical Science Young Investigator Award was presented to Dr Vinoj George for his poster entitled:

The role of reactive oxygen species and nadph oxidase in endothelial cell cycle regulation

Vinoj received 250GBP and one year's free personal subscription to Clinical Science online

Past Awards 2006

At the High Blood Pressure Research Council of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting 2006, the Clinical Science Young Investigator Award was awarded to Rohit Ramchandra for his presentation:

Impaired cardiac sympathetic nerve response to haemorrhage in heart failure

Rohit received 250GBP and one year's free personal subscription to Clinical Science online

At the British Society for Cardiovascular Research Autumn 2006, the Clinical Science Young Investigator Award was awarded to Ziad Ali for his oral presentation.

Ziad received 250GBP and one year's free personal subscription to Clinical Science online

At the British Hypertension Society Annual Meeting, the Clinical Science Young Investigator Award was awarded to Justin Davies for his presentation:

Coronary blood flow is predominately driven by a backward propagating 'suction' wave, which is attenuated in left ventricular hypertrophy
JE Davies, ZI Whinnett, CH Manisty, IS Malik, RA Foale, K Willson, AD Hughes, KH Parker and J Mayet.

Justin received 250GBP and one year's free personal subscription to Clinical Science online

International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids 2006

23-28 July

Cairns, Australia

Professor Philip Calder, Associate Editor presented the Clinical Science Best presentation in Clinical Sciences to Bettina Kofler for her paper entitled:

'The anti-inflammatory action of modest dose fish oil intakes in healthy adults (The FinGen Study)'

Bettina received AUD$500, a framed certificate and a years free personal subscription to Clinical Science.

At the 'From Genes to Disease' - Cardiovascular Research in Glasgow Symposium, the Clinical Science Young Investigator Award was awarded to Dr. Lorraine Work for her presentation:

'Peptide-targeted Ad19p-based adenoviral vectors for renal gene delivery'

Lorraine received £250 and one years free personal online subscription to Clinical Science.

At the Experimental Biology 2006 meeting the Clinical Science Young Investigator Award was awarded to Shane Phillips for his presentation

'Do low fat and low carbohydrate diets show similar improvement in endothelial function?'

Shane received 500USD and one years free personal online subscription to Clinical Science.

At the British Society for Cardiovascular Research Spring meeting 2006, the Clinical Science Young Investigator Award was awarded to Dr Rizwan Sarwar for his presentation:

'A combined linkage and expression study of rat heart to identify primary drivers of cardiac hypertrophy'

Dr Sarwar received 250GBP and one years free personal subscription to Clinical Science online.

Past Awards 2005

At the High Blood Pressure Research Council of Australia meeting the Clinical Science Young Researcher Award was awarded to Dr Morag Young.

Activation of the mineralocorticoid receptor by endogenous glucocorticoids in the development of cardiac fibrosis - Young MJ, Fuller PJ and Funder JW.

Dr Young received 500AUS$ and one year's free online subscription to Clinical Science.

At the British Society for Cardiovascular Research Autumn 2005, the Clinical Science Young Investigator Award was awarded to Mr Xiaoke Yin for his presentation:

Proteomic analysis reveals higher demand for antioxidant protection in embryonic stem cell-derived smooth muscle cells
X. Yin, Q. Xiao, U. Mayr, M. Mayr, Q. Xu.

Mr Yin received 250GBP and one year’s free personal subscription to Clinical Science online

At the British Hypertension Society Annual Meeting, the Clinical Science Young Investigator Award was awarded to Dr Carmel McEniery for her oral presentation:

Machanisms underlying systolic hypertension in young adults
CM McEniery, YSS Franklin, MJ Brown, JR Cockroft and IB Wilkinson

Dr McEniery received 250GBP and one year’s free personal subscription to Clinical Science online

At the British Society for Cardiovascular Research Spring Meeting 2005, The Clinical Science Prize was awarded to Dr Scott Brouilette for his Oral Presentation:

‘A prospective analysis of the association of mean leucocyte telomere length with risk of coronary heart disease, and interaction with statin treatment’
S Brouilette, J Moore, JR Thompson, A McMahon, C Packard, AH Goodall, NJ Samani, on behalf of the WOSCOPS Investigators.

Dr Brouilette received 250GBP and one year’s free personal subscription to Clinical Science online.

Past Awards 2004

Clinical Science Young Investigator’s Award presented at the British Hypertension Society Annual Meeting

Clinical Science is pleased to announce the winner of the Young Investigator’s Award presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the British Hypertension Society held at St John’s College, Cambridge from 13-15 September 2004.

The winner was Dr Christian Delles (BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre) for his presentation entitled ‘ A single nucleotide polymorphism in the human glutathione S-transferase mu type 4 gene (GSTM 4) is associated with impaired endothelial function and arterial hypertension'

Professor Neil Poulter, President of the British Hypertension Society, presented the Award. Dr Delles received a cheque for £250 and a free subscription to Clinical Science online.

Clinical Science has also agreed to sponsor a Young Investigator’s Prize at the 2005 Annual Meeting, to be held at Queens’ College, Cambridge, from 19-21 September.

Clinical Science Young Investigator Award presented at ISSFAL 2004

Carmen Patricia Pérez-Matute from the Department of Physiology & Nutrition at the University of Navarra, Spain, was awarded the Clinical Science Young Investigator Award at the recent 6th Congress of International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids in Brighton. Patricia's award-winning poster entitled "Increased Glucose Oxidation is involved in the Stimulatory Effect of EPA on Leptin Secretion in Primary Cultured Rat Adipocytes" was presented in the category on obesity and insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome.

Clinical Science Poster Prize winner announced

Dr Abraham George (Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, London) was awarded the Clinical Science Poster Prize for his presentation at the Renal Association Spring meeting in Aberdeen, April 2004. His presentation was entitled:

Dialysis Related Bacteraemia Surveillance: Lessons from the West London-CDC Pilot and a Proposal for a National Scheme

Clinical Science Young Investigator Award presented at the International Society of Hypertension Meeting in Brazil

Clinical Science is pleased to announce the winner of the Young Investigator Award presented at the 20th Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Hypertension.

This meeting took place from 15-19 February 2004 at the Transamérica Expo Center, São Paulo, Brazil.

The winner of the Award was Dr Lucinda Whiteley (Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary) for her presentation entitled 'Diabetes Mellitus as an Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Equivalent - 25 Year Follow-Up of the Renfrew/Paisley Population'.