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2025 Award Winners

Dietitian Recognition Award

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Chloe McMurray

University Hospital North Tees

Project Title: Improving Nutritional Management of Pancreatic Disease

Supervisor: Carys Robinson

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Essay Prize Winner

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Student Prizes

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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

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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

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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

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F1/F2 Research Award

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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

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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

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Nurse Recognition Award

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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

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Pharmacist Recognition Award

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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

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SPR trainee Audit / Quality Improvement Award

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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

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