Dean's Research Prize Winners

The Dean's Research听awards celebrate the huge range of research carried out by undergraduates, postgraduates听and PhD students across the faculty, with a range of presentations, posters, and prizes.

The event includes the Three Minute Thesis challenge (3MT庐). The听winner and runner-up progress to the 香港六合彩中特网 semi-final with听the opportunity to progress to the UK National Vitae competition.

2023-24 Winners

Postgraduate Research Presentation

Judges鈥� Choice:听 Emily Walsh (Division of Medicine) High Resolution Microscopy of Self-protection in the Immune Synapse
People鈥檚 Choice: Emma Lucie Alice Touizer (Division of Infection & Immunity) The Impact of B Cell Phenotypes in HIV Infection on Antibody Responses

3MT庐 Presentation

Judges鈥� Choice: Brittany Cucchiaro (Division of Medicine) Exploring Nutrition鈥檚 Vital Role in Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell Therapy - Nourishing Success.
People鈥檚 Choice:听 Rhyla Mae Santiago (Cancer Institute) Dormant Cell: Radiotherapy's Worst Nightmare

Postgraduate Taught Poster

Judges鈥� Choice: Urmi Shah (MSc Physical Therapy in Musculoskeletal Healthcare & Rehabilitation) Electromyography Biofeedback for People with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review.
People鈥檚 Choice:听 Sara Bin Shalhoub (MSc Musculoskeletal Science) Knowledge, Perceptions and Views of Occupational Therapists towards the use of Virtual Reality for the Management of Musculoskeletal Conditions: A Cross Sectional Survey

Undergraduate Poster

Judges鈥� Choice: Sanchit Aapan (BSc (Intercal) Medical Sciences with Mathematics, Computers and Medicine) Preoperatively Predicting the Likelihood of Complications following Meningioma Resection - A Machine Learning Analysis
People鈥檚 Choice: Diya Paras Shah (BSc [Intercal] Medical Sciences with Surgical Sciences)听听Optimising Gelatin Methacrylate for Corneal Regeneration

2023-24 Dean's Research Prize Winners with Professor Tom Carlson (Vice-Dean Education)

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2022-23听

Prize Winners:

Postgraduate Research Presentation:

Judges'听Choice:听Auxtine Micalet (Division of Surgery & Interventional Science).听 Stiffness and Cancer Invasion Using 3D In Vitro Tumour Models.
People's Choice:听Fiona Verisqa (Eastman Dental Institute).听 The Best of Both Worlds: Can We Combine 3D Printable Materials for Joint Regeneration?

3MT庐听Presentation:

Judges'听Choice:听Puja Mehta (Division of Medicine).听 Post-COVID Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD): Finding the Smooth(ie) Criminals鈥� & Custodians.
People's Choice:听Sandra Kuswandani (Eastman Dental Institute).听 Combination of Cell-based Engineering and Soft Tissue Substitutes (STS): a Future for Wound Healing in Tissue Engineering?

Postgraduate Taught Poster:

Judges' Choice:听鈥嬧赌嬧赌嬧赌�Selin Cankat (Division of Infection & Immunity).听 T cells that Abort SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Seronegative Healthcare Workers Persist up to 18-months After Exposure
People's Choice:听Hong Jin Tan (Eastman Dental Institute).听 Development and In Vitro Characterisation of Amoxicillin-Encapsulated PMPC-PDPA Polymersomes.

Undergraduate Poster:

Judges' Choice:听Nadia Vloemans (Division of Surgery & Interventional Science).听 Investigation of Cobalt Bioactive Glass on a Diabetic Wound Model.
鈥嬧赌嬧赌嬧赌嬧€嬧€�People's Choice:听Alexandre Woernle (Division of Medicine).听 The Impact of Second Reads in the One-Stop Prostate MRI Clinic

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2021-22

The 10th Dean's Research Prize took place online on Thursday 19 March 2022.听听For all categories, two prizes were awarded: a Judges' Award and a People's Choice award (by audience vote).

See the full 2022 event report

Prize Winners:

Postgraduate Research Presentation:

Judges'听Choice:听Thomas Fox (Division of Infection & Immunity).听 Towards Gene Therapy for CTLA4 Insufficiency
People's Choice:听Kalliopi Bokea (Division of Surgery & Interventional Science).听 Tumouroids versus xenografts, as platforms for the prediction of treatment response of patients with kidney cancer.

3MT庐听Presentation:

Judges'听Choice:听Kavina Shah (Division of Medicine).听 Coercing Cellular Co-operation into Conflict: a paradigm shift in treating autoimmune disease
People's Choice:听Fiona Verisqa (Eastman Dental Institute).听 The best of both worlds: Can we combine 3D printable materials for joint regeneration?

Postgraduate Taught Poster:

Judges' Choice:听 Roaa Al-Bedaery (香港六合彩中特网 Medical School).听 A realist evaluation of undergraduate medical teaching with remote (telephone and video) consultations in primary care
People's Choice:听Iris Ee Jiunliew (Eastman Dental Institute).听 Orthodontic YouTubeTM videos made by patients for patients: What are they about and are they accurate?

Undergraduate Poster:

Judges' Choice:听Joseph Kettle (Cancer Institute). Single Centre Relevance of Predictive and Prognostic Biomarkers for Metastatic Urothelial Cancer
鈥嬧赌嬧赌嬧赌嬧€嬧€�People's Choice:听Elsie Lucia Rodriguez Hernandez (Cancer Institute). 听Clinical and Molecular Characterisation of Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer Patients

2020-21

The 9th Dean's Research Prize took place online on Thursday 27 May 2021. For all categories, two prizes were awarded: a Judges' Award and a People's Choice award (by audience vote).

See the full 2021 event report

Prize Winners:

Postgraduate Research Presentation:

Judges'听Choice:听Rishi Kumar Gupta听(Division of Infection and Immunity).听 Precision Targeting of Preventative Therapy for Tuberculosis
People's Choice:听Christopher Wincup听(Division of Medicine).听 Investigating Abnormal Iron Metabolism and Mitochondrial Dysfunction as a Novel Mechanism for Fatigue in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

3MT庐听Presentation:

Judges'听Choice:听Eoin Dinneen (Division of Surgery and Interventional Science).听 Potent Stuff!听 Preserving Erections in Men Who Are Having Prostate Cancer Surgery
People's Choice:听Olivia Bracken听 (Division of Medicine).听 Lipid Mediators 鈥� A Drug Target for Autoimmunity?

Postgraduate Taught Poster:

Judges' Choice:听 Lucie Rayner听听(MSc Performing Arts Medicine).听 Lumbar Flexicurve Apex Height Measurement: A New Spine Extension Screening Tool for Dancers
People's Choice:听Pinelopi Alexandropoulou (MSc Clinical and Public Health Nutrition).听 Inter-Individual Variability in Weight Loss Response to Dietary Interventions with Varying Macronutrient Distribution: A Systematic Review

Undergraduate Poster:

Judges' Choice:听Niraj Doshi听(iBSc Medical Sciences with Clinical Sciences).听 A Genome-Wide Association Study of Non-Alcohol Related Fatty Liver Disease in India: Is there a Divergence in the Genetic Risk Profile?听听听听听听听听
鈥嬧赌嬧赌嬧赌嬧€嬧€�People's Choice:听Abhinav Kumar听(iBSc Medical Sciences with Oncology).听 Evaluating Potential Theranostic Agents that have an Application for Both Imaging and Radiosensitisation
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2019-20

The 8th Dean's Research Prize took place at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead on 6 February 2020.

See the full 2020 event report

Prize Winners:

Postgraduate Research Presentation:听
Natalie Edner (Division of Infection & Immunity).听 Follicular helper T cells predict response to immunotherapy in type 1 diabetes

3MT庐 Presentation:

Judges' Choice:听Nekisa Zakeri (Division of Infection & Immunity).听 The New Cells on the Block: removing the brakes for liver cancer therapy.听听(Nekisa was also the winner of the 香港六合彩中特网 3MT庐 Institutional Final held on 17 June 2020)
鈥嬧赌嬧赌嬧赌嬧€嬧€�People's Choice:听Yingqi Hou (Division of Medicine).听 Pneumonia: Sticky Bacteria in Action

Postgraduate Taught Poster:听
Helena P茅rez Pe帽a (MSc Drug Design).听 Wild type and Analogue Sensitive (AS) homology models of Leishmania mexicana kinetochore kinases CLK1, KKT3 and KKT2

Undergraduate听Poster:听
James Cai (iBSc Immunology, Infection & Cell Pathology).听 Lentiviral Accessory Protein Vpx is an NF-kB antagonist听

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2018-19

The听7th annual Dean鈥檚 Research Prize Event took place听on Thursday 14听February 2019.

Prize Winners:

Postgraduate Research Presentation:听
Lina Carmona Echeverria听 (Division of Surgical & Interventional Science).听 Objective assessment of the aggressive prostate cancer burden in PROMIS using digital pathology.

3MT庐 Presentation:

Judges'听Choice:听Gianpaolo Manalastas (香港六合彩中特网 Medical School).听鈥淏efore I go into that, let me ask you a few questions first鈥�: How doctors use language to control the consultation structure
Runner Up:听Rikah Louie (Division of Medicine).听 Macrophage-IRF8 deficiency protects against Atherosclerosis

Postgraduate Taught Poster:听
Yuyan Duan听 (MRes Human Tissue Repair).听 Role of liver-resident natural killer cells in repair and

Undergraduate听Poster:听
Vittoria Stefanello听 (BSc Applied Medical Sciences).听 The Effects of Radiotherapy and Nanoparticles on 3D Cancer Models

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A selection of images from the 2020 Dean's Research Prize听event held at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead.听It听celebrated the success of students'听research across the faculty, with a range of presentations, posters, and prizes.

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