Each February the LHS evening meeting is dedicated soley to researchers in the early stages of their careers. Three talk titles are chosen for presentation at this meeting and the committee present the most outstanding presentation with a £100 prize.
Previous winners:
2008/2009 Reecha Sofat, UCL "Mendelian randomisation for drug target validation: separating mechanism-based and off-target effects of torcetrapib".
2009/2010 Victoria J. Burton, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research "Bone Morphogenetic Protein Receptor-II as a regulator of pulmonary artery endothelial cell permeability: Relevance to the initiation and progression of heritable pulmonary arterial hypertension"
Previous shortlisted abstracts:
2008/2009 Adam Greenstein, Manchester University "Thinking outside the vessel: Discovery of novel targets to combat microvascular disease" & Silke Becker, King’s College London "Renin causes cyclic GMP-dependent vasorelaxation of rat renal arteries".
2009/2010 Gavin Dreyer, Royal London Hospital "The effect of ethnicity on the prevalence of essential hypertension and associated chronic kidney disease" & Mose Oladapo, Barts and The London, Queen Mary University of London "Mapping and expression studies of a novel blood pressure locus identified by meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies".
The LHS is now accepting applications for the 2009/2010 Young Researchers Prize, which will take place at our February meeting in 2011. You must be either a current PhD student or 3 years post-doc (with no limit on age) to be eligible. To apply, please email a talk title and abstract (no more than one page) to the secretary and don't foget to confirm your eligibility in the email. The deadline for abstracts is November 1st, 2010.
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