Guts UK/Dr Falk collaboration
Prizes and awards jointly supported by the Guts UK/Dr Falk collaboration
The Guts UK/Dr Falk Awards run every year. Find out about the 2019 winners here and about previous years’ award recipients below.
| 2018 Award Winners | Project Title | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Awad Mahalhal Medical Student Essay | Influence of iron supplementation on gut microbiota and the natural history of Inflammatory Bowel Disease | Gastroenterology Research Unit, University of Liverpool |
| Chun Yin Jocelyn Cheuk Medical Student Prize | The development of obesity and Type 2 diabetes harnessing the gut microbiota and host genetics | Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton |
| Claudia Cipriano Medical Student Prize | Assessment of body composition and the gut hormone and cytokine profile of anorexic and cachexia upper gastrointestinal cancer patient | Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester |
| Ratnam Ghandi Medical Student Prize | The clearance of dead cells by hepatocytes: mechanism and clinical implications | Centre for Liver Research, University of Birmingham |
| Lauren Marks Medical Student Prize | Biopsy avoidance strategy in adult Coeliac disease | Gastroenterology Department, Royal Hallamshire Hospital/University of Sheffield |
| Dr Emily Hughes F1/F2 Research Grant | Inflammatory crosstalk between adipose tissue and the liver | Department of Discovery and Translational Science, University of Leeds |
| Dr Camilla Rhead F1/F2 Research Grant | An analysis of the incidence of bacterial infection, antibiotic use and resistance in patients with decompensated liver disease | Institute of Liver and Digestive Health, Royal Free Hospital / UCL |
| Dr Miranda Lomer Dietitian Prize | A dietary management pathway for Irritable Bowel Syndrome | Reader in Dietetics, King's College London |
| Dr Laith Al Rubaiy Quality Improvement Award | Using Patients' endoscopy educational VIDeos to improve their Experience and OutcomeS (P-VIDEOS) study | University Hospital of Wales and University Hospital of Llandough in Cardiff |
| Dr Misha Kabir Quality Improvement Award | Developing a personalised patient decision aid to improve the quality of shared decision-making between Ulcerative Colitis patients diagnosed with dysplasia and their clinicians | St Mark's Hospital and Academic Institute |
| Dr Dipesh Vasant Quality Improvement Award | Anorectal dysfunction in Ulcerative Colitis: a cross sectional survey | Salford Royal, Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust |
| 2017 Award Winners | Project Title | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Joseph Christopher Medical Student Essay | Quantifying intestinal stem cell dynamics using microsatellite sequencing | Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute |
| Diya Kapila Medical Student Essay | Development and optimisation of a PCR-based assay for study of gut microbiota-derived bile-metabolising enzymes | Centre for Digestive and Gut Health, Imperial College London |
| Maja Kopczynska Medical Student Prize | Developing biomarkers to predict cancer risk in Inflammatory Bowel Disease | Imperial College School of Medicine, London |
| Aneesh Sharma Medical Student Prize | Determining the association between SNPs in the disease modifier genes PCSK7, PNPLA3, TM6SF2 & MBOAT7 and the development of significant liver injury in hereditary haemochromatosis | UCL Division of Molecular Psychiatry |
| William Collier Medical Student Prize | The effect of hypoxia on TRAIL mediated pancreatic cancer cell apoptosis | Centre for Liver Research, Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham |
| Haarith Ndiaye Medical Student Prize | Sensitising liver cancer cells to apoptosis through targeted inhibition of fatty acid activation | UCL Institute for Liver & Digestive Health |
| Dahlia Hopmeier F1/F2 Research Grant | Understanding the role of gene regulation in the pathogenesis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease | Complex Disease Genetics Group, Division of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, Guy’s Hospital, London |
| Laura Heath F1/F2 Research Grant | The Liver Project | Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford |
Nurse/Dietitian Prize | Checking fat soluble vitamin levels in patients with Pancreatic Exocrine Insufficiency (PEI) in the community | Advanced Gastroenterology Dietitian, Cambridgeshire |
| 2016 Award Winners | Project Title | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Sam Kleeman Medical Student Essay | Application of a miRNA signature to the non-invasive diagnosis of Barrett’s oesophagus | MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge |
| James Wadkin Medical Student Bursary | Expression, Regulation and the Functional Role of Tetraspanin CD151 in the Development of Chronic Liver Disease and Hepatocellular Carcinoma | Centre for Liver Research, Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham |
| Katherine McKay Medical Student Bursary | Mechanistic Basis of Cognitive Impairment in Cholestatic Liver Disease | Institute of Cellular Medicine, University of Newcastle |
| Fatima Ali Medical Student Bursary | Morbidity and Mortality Associated with Cytomegalovirus Infection in Liver Transplant Recipients – Structural Characterisation of a Putative Cytomegalovirus Drug Target | Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, Division of Medicine, University College London |
| Sivesh Kamarajah Medical Student Bursary | Expression and Functional Characterisation of Scavenger Receptor F-1 and Zonula Occludens-2 in Chronic Liver Disease and Malignancy | Centre for Liver Research, Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham |
| Paul Middleton F1/F2 Bursary | Characterisation of neutrophil and regulatory T-cell/effector T-cell interactions in alcohol-related liver disease | Institute of Liver Studies and Liver Transplantation, King’s College Hospital |
| Patrik Bachtiger F1/F2 Bursary | Mechanisms of Cell Death in Acute on Chronic Liver Failure: Necrosis, Apoptosis and the Emerging Role of Nucleosomes | UCL Liver Failure Group, Institute of Liver & Digestive Health, Royal Free Hospital |
| Kay Greveson Medical Nurse Recognition Prize | Developed IBD Passport (www.ibdpassport.com); a non-profit, evidence based, online travel resource to educate patients with IBD and healthcare professionals who advise them. | Lead Inflammatory Bowel Disease Nurse Specialist, Royal Free Hospital NHSFT |
| 2015 Award Winners | Project Title | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Mario Lepore Medical Student Essay | The Diagnostic Accuracy of HBV-DNA Quantification Using Dried Blood Spots in Chronic HBV Carriers in The Gambia | Medical Research Council, The Gambia Unit |
| Zhi-Yang Low Student Bursary | The predisposition to infection in patients with cirrhosis: rationale for drug design based on novel functional and structural studies of the albumin | University College London |
| Ashley Rajan Retchless Student Bursary | Lymphocytes as vehicles for Hepatitis C virus transmission to the liver | School of Immunity and Infection, University of Birmingham |
| Rosie Simson Student Bursary | Primary human enteroids: A translational research tool to study therapeutic implications of modulating TGFβ signalling in inflammatory bowel disease | Institute of Cellular Medicine, University of Newcastle |
| Jin Quan Nataniel Tan Student Bursary | Structural and chemical biology of noroviral proteases – a major therapeutic target for structure-based drug design | University College London |
| Natalie To F1/F2 Bursary | Effect of smoking on the natural history of Crohn’s disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis | St. James’s University Hospital |
| Diana Evelyn Yung F1/F2 Bursary | Small-bowel capsule endoscopy in the young anaemic patient | Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh |
| Sarah Alison Thomas Medical Nurse Recognition | Developed satellite clinics in primary care to empower patients with ongoing symptoms to self manage symptom relapse, use medication effectively and appropriately where required, understand when to report symptoms to GP (creating expert patients who can partner with healthcare professionals in the management of their symptoms) and support GP colleagues in the management of this patient group. | Royal Gwent Hospital |
| 2014 Award Winners | Project Title | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Gordon Brown Essay Prize | Validating Candidate Prognostic Biomarkers in Colorectal Cancer | University of Aberdeen |
| Adam Young Essay Prize | Khat-related liver injury in the Somalian diaspora in the United Kingdom | UCL Institute for Liver and Digestive Health |
| Joseph Christopher Student Bursary | Modelling in vivo intestinal stem cell dynamics using Next Generation | Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute / University of Cambridge Clinical School |
| (Mohamed) Adam Ali Student Bursary | The role of genetics in determining individual susceptibility to alcohol related liver injury | UCL Laboratory of Molecular Psychiatry and UCL Institute for Liver and Digestive Health |
| Ding Yang Student Bursary | Use of MALDI-MS to discover new protein biomarkers in patients with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis | University of Birmingham |
| Hani Essa Student Bursary | Is genetic makeup predictive of swallowing recovery after pharyngeal stimulation in dysphagic stroke | Institute of Inflammation and Repair, University of Manchester |
| Graham Heap F1/F2 Bursary | The clinical and pharmacogenetic features of 5-aminosalicylate induced nephrotoxicity | Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital |
| Tamsin Cargill F1/F2 Bursary | Gene expression profiles to determine disease severity in IgG4-related autoimmune pancreatitis and cholangitis | Oxford University |
| Kaye Drew Nurse Grant | Co-ordinated the development of a capsule endoscopy service | Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield |
| Beverley Clark Nurse Grant | Increased the uptake of HBV screening in the local prison using dry blood spot testing by a hospital based hepatitis nurse | Maidstone Hospital |
| Shirley James Nurse Grant | Ensured continued delivery of IBD Helpline service | University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust |
| 2013 Award Winners | Project Title | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Greta Pells Essay Prize | The influence of age and gender on treatment efficacy and clinical phenotype in Primary Biliary Cirrhosis – are we treating two different diseases? Evidence from the UK-PBC Patient Cohort | Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University Medical School |
| Ross McMahon Essay Prize | Identification of precancerous changes to crypt morphology in a mouse model for hereditary bowel cancer | University of Dundee |
| Alison Pitts Student Bursary | Understanding the mechanisms underpinning treatment non-response in Primary Biliary Cirrhosis: a tool for treatment stratification | Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University Medical School |
| Anna Burn-Murdoch Student Bursary | The diagnostic utility and predictive validity of central sarcopenia as a measure of nutritional status in patients with cirrhosis | UCL Institute for Liver and Digestive Health |
| Olivia Greenham Student Bursary | The role of 90K in the HCV lifecycle and response to interferon | University of Birmingham |
| Neale Marlow Student Bursary | Diagnostic efficacy of 3T MRI and probe-based Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy (pCLE) for the assessment of biliary strictures | UCL Institute for Liver and Digestive Health (Liver and Pancreatic Cancer Group) |
| Elizabeth Thomas Student Bursary | Does the presence of occult hepatitis B increase adverse liver-related outcomes in a population of Scottish patients with chronic hepatitis C? | University of Glasgow |
| Cindy Lai Student Bursary | The derivation and validation of a new algorithm for the early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer | UCL Institute for Liver and Digestive Health (Liver and Pancreatic Cancer Group) |
| Tessa Coulson F1/F2 Bursary | Investigating the central effect of peripheral exenatide administration in healthy volunteers: a physiological magnetic resonance imaging study | Salford Royal Hospital |
| Jake Mann F1/F2 Bursary | The effect of the omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid eicosapentaenoic acid on macrophage chemotaxis in colorectal cancer | Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, St James’s University Hospital |
| Mark Sephton Nurse Grant | Digestive Diseases Week, May 2013, Orlando, Florida | University Hospital South Manchester |
| Sibongile Chadokufa Nurse Grant | Haemopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, May 2013, King’s College London | Great Ormond Street Hospital |
| 2012 Award Winners | Project Title | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Edwin Halliday Essay Prize | The performance validity of breath sample analysis in the diagnosis of hepatic encephalopathy in patients with cirrhosis | UCL Medical School and the Department of Neurophysiology, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust |
| George Couch Student Bursary | Non-endoscopic screening biomarkers for squamous-cell carcinoma of the oesophagus | University of Cambridge |
| Greta Pells Student Bursary | The genetic basis of fatigue in PBC: Insights into pathogenesis and targets for treatment | Institute of Cellular Medicine (Hepatology), Newcastle University |
| Rebeca Carter Student Bursary | The role of maternal obesity and developmental programming on offspring pancreatic function | Royal Free Hospital |
| Rebecca Topley Student Bursary | Factors influencing abnormal glandular morphogenesis in colorectal cancer and verification in human tissue. A model for lumen formation via the PTEN-cdc42 pathway | Queen’s University Belfast |
| Leah Rosenbaum Student Bursary | The factors responsible for the susceptibility to develop alcohol-related cirrhosis; a histological study utilizing digital image analysis | University College Medical School |
| Mohammed Syed Student Bursary | The diagnostic and predictive validity of a new multichannel assessment technique for the evaluation of the EEG in patients with cirrhosis | UCL Medical School and the Department of Neurophysiology, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust |
| Adam Levine Student Bursary | The genetics of inflammatory bowel disease in Ashkenazi Jewish multiplex extended kindreds | University College London |
| Richard Wells Student Bursary | Finding immune neoantigens in a pancreatic cancer model | Cambridge University |
| Nicola Britton Student Bursary | A comprehensive analysis of the anti-bacterial properties of bilirubin against common human pathogens found in neonatal sepsis | Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen |
| 2011 Award Winners | Project Title | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Chuin Ying Ung Essay Prize | The role of Basophils in Dextran Sodium Sulphate Colitis | Tokyo Medical and Dental University/Imperial College |
| David Fraser Student Bursary | Live three dimensional mouse gut imaging to investigate the migration of intestinal epithelial cells | University of Dundee |
| Hannah Dadds Student Bursary | Development of novel diagnostic markers and therapies for Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasia (IPMN) of the pancreas | Royal Free Hospital |
| Charleen Min LI Chan Wah Hak Student Bursary | Investigation of a miRNA signature as anon-invasive biomarker for the diagnosis of oesophageal malignancies | Hutchison/MRC Research Centre,Cambridge |
| Edwin Halliday Student Bursary | The diagnostic validity of breath sample analysis in patients with hepatic encephalopathy | UCL Medical School |
| Elizabeth Williams Student Bursary | Electrogenesis and changes to the electroencephalogram of non-cirrhotic patients with Hepatitis C infection. | UCL Medical School |
| Waleed Butt Student Bursary | High-throughput screening for the JAK2 V617F mutation in colorectal tumours using high resolution melting analysis | Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham University |
| Ekta Patel F1/F2 Bursary | Does altered enteroendocrine cell function explain delayed gastric emptying in obesity? | Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust |
| Omer Ahmad F1/F2 Bursary | Physiological predictors of response to radio frequency ablation for Barrett’s oesophagus | University College London |
| 2010 Award Winners | Project Title | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Ekta Patel Medical Student Essay Prize | The role of endogenous cholecystokinin (CCK) in the regulation of gastric emptying in lean and obese humans | University of Manchester |
| Helen Robson Medical Student Essay Prize | Decision making in gastrostomy feeding 2. | University of Sheffield |
| Zohreen Ahmed Medical Student Essay Prize | Histopathology of Gastro-Oesophageal reflux disease - Does Lymphocytic Oesophagitis exist? Epidemiology by endoscopy (the Kalixanda study) | Imperial College London |
| Alasdair Warwick Medical Student Bursary | THE POPCOL STUDY - Epidemiology by Endoscopy in a Swedish Population | Imperial College London |
| Narin Suleyman Medical Student Bursary | Investigation of the β3 adrenoreceptor pathway as a potential anti-fibrotic pathway in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). | University College London |
| Robin Baddeley Medical Student Bursary | In Vivo Elastic Scattering Spectroscopy for the Assessment of Pancreaticobiliary Malignancy | University College London |
| Matthew Stubbs Medical Student Bursary | Changes in the sleep EEG in patients with cirrhosis; relationship to neuropsychiatric status and sleep-wake disturbances | Imperial College London |
| Madeleine Malina Medical Student Bursary | Expression of stem cell markers in submucosal glands of human oesophagus: a 2D- and 3D-study | Hutchinson MRC Research Centre |
| Chuin Ying Ung Medical Student Bursary | The role of basophils in regulating chronic inflammatory diseases | Imperial College London |
| Dr David George F1/F2 Bursary | Pilot Study: The effectiveness of near patient coeliac serology testing in the follow up of patients with an established diagnosis of Coeliac disease. | University of Birmingham |
| 2009 Award Winners | Project Title | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Ademola Olaitan Student Essay | Investigating the mechanism underlying genotypic and phenotypic tdiversity in the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori | University of Nottingham |
| Rebecca Burrell Student Essay | Evaluating Diamine Oxidase and Galectin-4 as Diagnostic Biomarkers for ta Barrett’s Oesophagus Screening Test | MRC Cancer Cell Unit |
| Hannah Ruth Wilson Student Essay | Critical Flicker Fusion for the Diagnosis of Hepatic Encephalopathy | UCL Medical School, Royal Free Hospital |
| Charlotte Katharina Brierley Student Bursary | Characterisation of Stem Cells in the Squamous Oesophageal Epithelium | University of Cambridge |
| Mohamed Hussein Student Bursary | Diagnostic Validity of the Sternberg Paradigm in Hepatic Encephalopathy | Royal Free Campus, University College London Medical School |
| Robert Tidswell Student Bursary | CD9 and Lumican – Potential Tumour Markers for Cholangiocarcinoma | Institute of Hepatology, University College London |
| Yee Yen Goh Student Bursary | Complex Attention Task Defects in Patients with Cirrhosis | Royal Free Campus, University College London Medical School |
| Shivan Sivakumar F1/F2 Bursary | tThe role of E-cadherin related signalling pathways in gastric cancer | Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds |
| Alexandra Ines Thompson F1/F2 Bursary | tDeriving Human Hepatocytes from iPSC (reprogrammed somatic cells)t | Medical Research Council Centre for Regenerative Medicine |
| 2008 Award Winners | Project Title | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Constance Pitsillides Student Bursary | Bowel dysfunction after hysterectomy for benign conditions: a prospective longitudinal study | –tNew Jessop Wing |
| Winnie Chen Student Bursary | The isolation and characterisation of bacteriophages which infect the gut pathogen C. difficile | University of Leicester |
| Zoe Nicholls Student Bursary | How does gastroduodenal reflux trigger Barrett’s oesophagus? | University of Sheffield |
| William McDermid Student Bursary | Genetic factors in the development of Barrett’s Oesophagus | University of Sheffield |
| Shuang Wang Student Bursary | The regulation of B cell expression by CAECAMI in models of murine colitis | Imperial College London & Tokyo Medical and Dental School |
| Rebecca Devaney Student Bursary | The role of interleukin-10 in Helicobacter pylori mediated cancer-associated gene expression | University of Nottingham |
| Kumal Chandarana Essay Prize | Slow-release Carbohydrates: a rational, patient acceptable approach for the nutritional management of patients with Cirrhosis? | Royal Free & University College Medical School, London |
| Meera Sritharan F1/F2 Bursary | Clostridium difficile: a study of strains and disease | Nottingham University Hospital |
| Paul Sutton F1/F2 Bursary | The role of dynamic serial magnetic resonance imaging in the assessment of patients with sphincter of Oddi dysfunction and postcholecystectomy pain | Nottingham University Hospital |
| 2007 Award Winners | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Asli Ucygit Essay Prize | Association between Schistomsoma Mansoni Infection and Hepatitis B Virus Infection and the Effects of Coinfection on Morbidity in an Ugandan Community |
| Lynda Greenslade Nurse Award | Inpatient as Outpatient Hepatoloqy Nurse Led Clinic: Proposaln |
| Mark Wheatley Student Bursary | Serum Makers of Liver Fibrosis in Chronic Hepatitis C Viral Infection and NAFLDn |
| Ian Pooleman Student Bursary | The Regulation of Alternative Splicing of KLF6 in Gastrointestinal Disease and Cancern |
| Anna Paterson Student Bursary | Molecular Predictors of Response to Photodynamic Therapy In Barrett's Oesophagusn |
| Shahriar Islam Student Bursary | Tracing Cell Lineage in the Human Liver Using Mitochondrial DNA Mutationsn |
| Graham Heap Student Bursary | Genetic Factors Influencing Intestinal Inflammationn |
| Esther Harazi Student Bursary | Ethanol Pharmacokinetics and Body Composition In South Asia (non muslim) Healthy Volunteersn |
| James Brindley Student Bursary | Evaluating the Role of M2- Pyruvate Kinase Tumour Marker in the Diagnosis of Biliary Tract Cancern |