Departmental News
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Dr Maciej Tomaszewski won the annual European Atherosclerosis Society Young Investigator Award in Clinical Research and has been invited to participate in the EAS 2013 in Lyon in June. Apr 2013 |
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Professor Alison Goodall took part in the BBC's 3rd Degree Quizz show on Radio 4. Apr 2013 |
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Mohammed Alsahi and Robert Turnbull have each been awarded a bursary of £400 from the British Society for Haemostasis and Thrombosis to attend the Congress of the International Society for Thrombosis and Haemostasis in Amsterdam in June 2013. Both have had abstracts accepted as posters and one of Mohammed’s 3 abstracts has been accepted as an oral presentation. Apr 2013 |
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Nikunj Patel, Intercalated BSc student supervised by Dr Andre Ng and Dr Caroline Banahan, won the Bert Thurston Prize for 2013 for his poster. Mar 2013 |
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Helena Lee won the Vernon Trophy for Ophthalmological Research for her oral presentation at the Nottingham Eye Symposium. Jan 2013 |
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Baris Kanber has been awarded a support package of £5,000 by The Careers Service's Enterprise Inc. for his 'Research Assistant' software following a presentation to the selection panel. The software is designed to assist researchers in the management of research activities and literature and, in particular, targets biomedical scientists. Dec 2012 |
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Dr Frank Proudlock and Professor Irene Gottlob have been awarded £199,206 by Action Medical Research for 'The role of glasses wearing in amblyopia treatment'. Nov 2012 |
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Nikil Patel was awarded a travel grant of £750, by the Santander Group, to travel to Sao Paulo in Brazil from 18th September - 9th October 2012 to do collaborative work on 'embolus characterisation' with a stroke research group in Brazil . Nov 2012 |
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Paraskevi Christofidou won the American Heart Association Mentorship Award for her oral presentation. Nov 2012 |
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Robert Turnbull and Sameer Kurmani were both shortlisted to present talks in the Early Career Award session at the Joint Meeting of the British Society for Haemostasis and Thrombosis and the UK Platelet Groups in Bath. Oct 2012 |
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Lisa Bloomer won the Stuart Spencer's Award for her oral presentation at the International Society of Hypertension. Sept 2012 |
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Dr André Ng has been awarded an equipment grant from the East Midlands Pacing Fund (EMPF) for the ULTIMATE project £60,954 Oct 2012 |
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Mr Eddie Choke has been awarded the first ever George Davies Visionary Award from The Circulation Foundation £79,340 Oct 2012 |
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Mr J Ben Wild has been awarded a travel grant from Heart Research UK to attend the Vascular Society AGM in Manchester where he will be making an oral presentation in the British Journal of Surgery prize session. Oct 2012 |
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Professor Dave Lambert and Dr Rich Rainbow have just published a major reworking of a textbook: 'Calcium Signaling Protocols' (Third Edition). Oct 2012 |
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Dr Saima Ehsan won an award at The First East Midlands Training in Clinical Research Show Case, held at Holywell Park Loughborough on 21st September, for her poster presentation entitled ‘Biomarkers for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA) describing the MALDI ToF’ describing work carried out with Karl Herbert, Matt Bown, Rob Sayers and David Boocock (Nottingham Trent University). Oct 2012 |
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Dr Karl Herbert has been elected onto the Council of the Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine making him the first member from outside of the Americas. Oct 2012 |
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Mr Badri Vijaynagar won the Raymond Limet Young Investigator Prize at the 3rd International Meeting on Aortic Diseases, in Liege, for his presentation entitled 'Sorafenib inhibits angiotensin-II induced aneurysm formation and progression in Apolipoprotein E-deficient mice' describing work carried out with Matt Bown, Rob Sayers and Eddie Choke. Oct 2012 |
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Nikesh Dattani has been award a one year Clinical Research Fellowship from The Circulation Foundation. Sept 2012 |
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Vimal J Gokani has joined the Department as a British Heart Foundation Clinical Research Fellow. Sept 2012 |
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Phillip Stather has been appointed as a Clinical Research Fellow. Sept 2012 |
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Mervyn Thomas has won one of the College PhD Prizes. His thesis is titled 'Genetype-henotype studies in infantile nystagmus with emphasis onthe novel FRMD7 gene. (Supervisors: Professor Irene Gottlob and Dr Frank Proudlock). Aug 2012 |
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Dr Brenda Leckie We have learnt, with great regret, of the death of Dr Brenda Leckie after a short period of illness. July 2012 |
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Kieran Brack has been awarded a 4 year British Heart Foundation Fellowship. July 2012 |
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Djalil Baiou has been awarded a 2 year Fellowship from The Royal College of Surgeons & Dunhill July 2012 |
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Andrew Vanezis represented Leicester in the regional final of the East Midlands Engineering and Science Professionals (EMESP) masters prize and was chosen as the overall winner. June 2012 Read more... |
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Sanjay Bhandari has been awarded a 3 year British Heart Foundation Fellowship June 2012 |
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Sarah Nduwayo, Intercalated BSc student (supervised by Professor Ronney Panerai and Dr Kumar Ramnarine) won best poster prize at the closing ceremony of the European Society of Neurosonology and Cerebral Hemodynamics at Venice in Italy 17th-20th May 2012. May 2012 |
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Kate Beaumont (supervised by Dr Nelson Chong and Dr Ezio Rosato in Genetics) won best poster prize in the College of Medicine, Biological Sciences and Psychology at the Festival of Postgraduate Research. May 2012 |
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Frederique van Heusen (supervised by Dr Fernando Schlindwein in Engineering and Dr Andre Ng) won best poster prize in the College of Science and Engineering at the Festival of Postgraduate Research. May 2012 |
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Professor Alison Goodall has taken over as Chair of the Cardiovascular Sciences Academic Committee. Apr 2012 |
Links to:
Cardiovascular Sciences in the Media 2012
Cardiovascular Sciences in the Media 2011
