2025 Award Winners
Dietitian Recognition Award
Chloe McMurray
University Hospital North Tees
Project Title: Improving Nutritional Management of Pancreatic Disease
Supervisor: Carys Robinson
Essay Prize Winner
Wei Han Ethan Chang
Imperial College London
Project Title: Improving Accessibility and Patient Understanding of Endoscopy with Multilingual Videos Using Text-To-Speech Models
Supervisor: Dr Stephanie Poo
Katerina Ingham
University of Sheffield School of Medicine
Project Title: Is There a Role for Serologically Screening Adult Patients with Type One
Diabetes Mellitus for Coeliac Disease?
Supervisor: Professor David Sanders
Lucy Stiles
King’s College London School of Medicine
Project Title: Short-Term Outcomes Of 5ASA Vs Steroids in the Treatment of Children
with Newly Diagnosed Ulcerative Colitis
Supervisor: Professor Nicholas Croft
Dr Nat Peckett
University of Edinburgh, Institute of Genetics and Cancer
Project Title: Plasticity in the gastrointestinal tract in health and disease: The role of
ATRX in colorectal cancer metastasis
Supervisor: Mr Kevin Myant
Student Prizes
Nikhil Mistry
University of Birmingham School of Medicine
Project Title: Investigating the Role of Regulatory T cells (Tregs) in Perianal Fistulising Crohn’s Disease
Supervisor: Dr Laura Constable
Symriti Kaur-Paneser
Imperial College London, School of Medicine
Project Title: In Vitro Study of the Adsorption Capacity of the Enteroadsorbent Enterosgel for Cytokines, Enzymes and Drugs Relevant to Ulcerative Colitis
Supervisor: Miss Emma Victoria Carrington
Dr Amar Srinivasa
Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham
Project Title: Investigating the Causes of Post-Endoscopy Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer (PEUGIC)
Supervisor: Professor Nigel Trudgill
F1/F2 Research Award
Dr Mohamed Tabib
Department of Gastroenterology, NHS Tayside
Project Title: Improving Faecal Calprotectin Testing Accuracy for Better Monitoring and Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Supervisor: Dr Craig Mowat
Dr Dhanushan Gnanendran
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation
Project Title: Liver’s Silent Crisis: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach to Environmental Hepatology
Supervisor: Associate Professor Aswin Dhanda
Nurse Recognition Award
Sarah Jordan
Birmingham Children’s Hospital
Project Title: An Evaluation of IBD Child Patient/Carer Compliance in Providing Stool Samples for In Hospital Faecal Calprotectin (FC) Testing
Supervisor: Dr Rafeeq Muhammed
Pharmacist Recognition Award
Fiona Watson
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Project Title: Improving Discharge Timeliness and Patient Care: The Impact of an Embedded Prescribing Pharmacist (EPP) in a Gastroenterology Team
Supervisor: Dr James Morgan
SPR trainee Audit / Quality Improvement Award
Dr Munir Tarazi
Royal Preston Hospital and Salford Royal Hospital
Project Title: Improving Long-term Symptom Management in Oesophagogastric Cancer: Mapping Clinical Pathways and Exploring New Interventions
Supervisor: Professor George Hanna