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Departmental News
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Professor Alison Goodall has taken over as Chair of the Cardiovascular Sciences Academic Committee. Apr 2012 |
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Professor Nilesh Samani has been included in the new edition of Who's Who. (Who's Who) Dec 2011 |
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Samiul Mostafa won the South Asian Health Foundation best poster prize 2011 for his abstract ‘The independent effect of ethnicity in White Europeans and South Asians: implications for clinicians and policy makers?’ Nov 2011 |
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Will Dott won the poster prize at the 'In Vitro Toxicology Society' Annual Conference in Nov 2011. Nov 2011 |
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Radoslaw Debiec was awarded the Professor Jack Ledingham Young Investigators poster prize at the British Hypertesnion Society Annual Meeting in Sept 2011. Oct 2011 |
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Lucy BEISHON (Intercalated BSc Scheme B 2010/11) gave an oral presentation entitled 'Homologous desensitisation of human GPR55 receptors' at the European Students' 22nd Conference in Berlin (September 2011). Lucy also presented her work at the Spring meeting of the Anaesthetic Research Society in Liverpool. Sept 2011 |
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Professor David Evans received the American Instutute of Ultrasound in Medicine 2012 Honorary Fellow Award in recognition of his career in ultrasound in medicine and his outstanding contribution to the growth and development of diagnostic ultrasound. Sept 2011 |
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Dr Jonathan Thompson was awarded the prestigious Macintosh Professorship for 2010 by the Royal College of Anaesthetists, and will deliver his lecture on 3 November 2011 at the Royal College. Sept 2011 |
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Dr Simon Scott has received an Intensive Care Society Research Young Investigators Award (value £12,836) from the Intensive Care Foundation for 'Development of a novel assay for single cell nociceptin/orphaninFQ (N/OFQ) release from leucocyte subtypes for use in sepsis research'. Sept 2011 |
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The Department is delighted to announce the award of £6.56 million renewal funding over 5 years to the Biomedical Research Unit for Cardiovascular Disease. This award will enable us to continue to build on our successful translation of cardiovascular research from bench to bedside. Aug 2011 |
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Dr S Scott, Prof D Lambert, Dr JP Thompson have been awarded £12,815 by the Anaesthetic Research Society for 'Differential Expression of nociceptin receptor (NOP) and pre-pro nociceptin/ orphanin FQ (pp-N/OFQ) amongst leucoctyes and their subpopulations'. July 2011 |
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Professor Iain Squire has been elected as the Deputy Chair of the British Society for Heart Failure for two years starting from July 2011. Jun 2011 |
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Dr G André Ng, Dr Will Nicolson, Dr Geoff Whiteley (Biobator), Dr Gerry McCann and Dr Fernando Schlindwein (Engineering) were awarded the Medical Futures Best Innovation in Diagnostics Award on 6th June. Jun 2011 |
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Dr Will Nicolson represented Leicester in the regional final of the East Midlands Engineering and Science Professionals (EMESP) masters prize and was chosen as the overall winner. May 2011 |
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Mr Nikolaos Dietis has been selected to be a Chair of the East Midlands Universities Association Postgraduate Conference. May 2011 |
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Professor Tim Coats & Professor P Monks (Chemistry) have been awarded £3,088 by the College of Emergency Medicine for "A Pilot Study of Volatile Organic Compounds in Breathless Patients in the ED". Mar 2011 |
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Dr Will Nicolson was awarded the Young Investigators Prize at the CardioRhythm February Meeting. Feb 2011 |
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Dr Clett Erridge has been awarded £15,169 from the University Of Nottingham for 'Food/Saliva test for risk of periodontitis'. Feb 2011 |
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Dr G André Ng has been awarded £21,972 from Optimalife for 'Bodyguard study; EMDA funding application for the study in collaboration with Optima Life'. Feb 2011 |
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Dr G André Ng has been awarded a supplement of £45,000 from Sorin for 'Improving risk stratification and treatment with the Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator'. Feb 2011 |
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Professor Tony Gershlick has been awarded £449,123 from CEC for 'PRESTIGE: Prevention of Stent Thrombosis by an Interdisciplinary Global European effect'. Jan 2011 |
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Professor Dave Lambert and Professor David Rowbotham (Health Sciences) have been awarded £67,771 from the British Journal of Anaesthesia for the 'Characterisation of fentanyl based bivalent opioids' studentship. Jan 2011 |
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Departmental News 2010
