2020 Award Winners
Dietitian Recognition Award
Cristian Costas Battle
Dietetic Department, Bradford Royal Infirmary
Project Title: Impact of a New Secondary Care Dietetic-Led Coeliac Service in Bradford
Supervisor: Mr Rupert Allen
Essay Prize Winner
William Cambridge
Department of Clinical Surgery, University of Edinburgh
Project Title: Meta-analysis and Meta-regression of Survival After Liver Transplantation for Unresectable Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma
Supervisor: Dr Rachel Guest, Clinical Lecturer & Honorary Specialist Registrar
F1/F2 Research Award
Dr Maja Kopczynska
Intestinal Failure Unit, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Project Title: Psychosexual Function and Quality of Life in Chronic Intestinal Failure
Supervisor: Professor Simon Lal
Dr Nicole Cianci
Imperial College London Medical School
Project Title: Developing a direct mass spectrometric assay for the identification of early disease biomarkers for colorectal cancer
Supervisor: Mr. James Kinross
Medical Nurse Recognition Award
Louise Downey
Project Title: A Data Driven Service Evaluation of an IBD Help Line
Supervisor: Dr Markus Gwiggner
Student Prizes
Moksh Sharma
UCL Institute for Liver & Digestive Health, Division of Medicine, Royal Free Campus, University College London
Project Title: A Genome-wide Association Study of Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis
Supervisor: Dr Stephen Atkinson
Aaminah Mohammed
University College London Medical School
Project Title: Sex Related Differences in Alcohol-Related Liver Disease
Supervisor: Dr Jennifer Ryan
Dylan McClurg
MRC Cancer Unit, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre. University of Cambridge
Project Title: Characterising the Heterogeneity of Barrett’s Oesophagus and Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma using a Panel of Patient-Derived Organoid Models for Translational Research and Precision Medicine.
Supervisor: Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald
Sarah Coleman
Academic Unit of Gastroenterology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, UK
Project Title: Assessment of Gluten-Free Diet Adherence in Adults With Coeliac Disease: The Largest Prospective Study from the NHS England National Centre
Supervisor: Professor David Sanders