Young Investigator Prize

Young Investigator Prize

Young Investigator Oral Presentation Prize

Background

The Prize will be awarded for the best oral presentation at the Winter Meeting of the Society.

Eligibility

Member or Non-Member

Awarded

Annually at the Winter Meeting of the Society

Queries

For further information contact the Meetings Officer at: meetings@anatsoc.org.uk

The following award was made at the 2024 Winter Meeting, 6th to 8th January 2025, University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), Preston:

Young Investigator Oral Presentation Prize 2024



Awardee: Mr Shaz A. Raja
University:Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Oral Presentation:Towards Understanding the Canine Myotendinous and Osteotendinous Interfaces: A Biomaterial Perspective

Young Investigator Oral Presentation Prize 2023

Ms Amber Wood-Bailey

Awardee: Ms Amber Wood-Bailey
University: University of Liverpool
Oral Presentation: New Insights into the leporid  intracranial joint: complexity and locomotion

Young Investigator Joint Oral Presentation Prize 2022, Winter Meeting

2022, rescheduled to 17th to 19th April 2023

Awardee

University

Oral Presentation Title

Ms Hazel Allardyce
Ms Hazel Allardyce

University of Aberdeen

 

Spinal Muscular Atrophy affects more than just motor neurons in human spinal cord

Ms Alexandra McCulla

Queen’s University Belfast

 

Institutional Ethnography as a Methodology to Explore the Impact of Medical Licensing Assessment on Gross Anatomy Teaching’

The Winter Scientific Meeting 2021, 5th to 7th January 2022, Dublin, was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The meeting has been rescheduled to Summer 2022. The following joint award was made at the Summer Meeting 4th to 6th July 2022,Dublin::

Young Investigator Joint Oral Presentation Prize 2021 (awarded Summer 2022)

Joint Awardee: Ms Olivia Dinwoodie
University: Kings College, London
Oral Presentation Title: Investigating the role of Wnt signalling in regeneration of the murine tympanic membrane

and

Joint Awardee: Mr Noor Haddad
University: St George's, University of London
Oral Presentation Title: Does teaching anatomy online with 3D digital models enhance student's learner gain and satisfaction as compared to 2D images?

Young Investigator Joint Oral Presentation Prize 2020, virtual Winter Meeting

2020 held 6th to 8th January 2021

 

Awardee

University

Oral Presentation Title

Mr Cian O’Connor

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

 

Development of Anatomically Inspired 3D Human iPSC Spinal Cord Scaffold System

Mr Suveer Sachdeva

King’s College London

 

The Role of Wnt Signalling in Maintaining Homeostasis of Murine Anterior Ocular Tissue

 

Young Investigator Runner-Up Oral Presentation Prize 2020, virtual Winter

Meeting 2020 held 6th to 8th January 2021

 

Awardee

University

Oral Presentation Title

Ms Fiona Cronin

University of Limerick, Ireland

Investigating the Role of the Mesentery in the Innervation of the Gut and Enteric Nervous System

Young Investigator Winners 2019

The Young Investigator Oral Presentation Prize 2019, Winter Meeting of the Society at Lancaster University, was awarded to:

Ms Martyna Stasiewicz for her talk:

'Prevalence of Linburg-Comstock variation in a cohort of cadavers of Irish descent'

The Runner-Up Young Investigator Oral Presentation Prize 2019, Winter Meeting of the Society at Lancaster University, was awarded to:

Miss Claudia Santoni for her talk:

'Turning Points: cochlear development in the human embryo'

Young Investigator Winner 2018

The Young Investigator Oral Presentation Prize 2018, Winter Meeting of the Society at York University, was awarded to:

Mr Patrick Warren for his talk:

‘The morphology of the human prefemoral fat pad suggests that it aids patellar stabilisation in knee extension'.

Mr Patrick Warren

Young Investigator Winners 2017

The Young Investigator Oral Presentation Prize 2017, Winter Meeting of the Society at Dundee University, was awarded to:

Ms Hannah Felstead for her talk:

‘Fibroblast growth factor 10 (FGF10) expressing cells generate new neurons and glial cells in the postnatal mouse cerebral cortex’


Ms Hannah Louise Felstead
Professor Stefan Przyborski congratulating Ms Hannah Louise Felstead, winner of the Young Investigator Oral Presentation Prize 2017, AS Winter Meeting, Dundee, 2017

The Joint Runner-Up Young Investigator Oral Presentation Prize 2017, Winter Meeting of the Society at Dundee University, was awarded to:

Ms Samantha Goodchild for her talk: ‘Understanding the trabecular architecture within developing human lumbar vertebrae’

and

Mr Andrew Sanderson for his talk: ‘A high-density EMG investigation of changes in erector spinae activity during an endurance task’

Young Investigator Winners 2016

The Young Investigator Joint Oral Presentation Prize 2016, Winter Meeting of the Society at King's College London,  was awarded jointly to:

Mr Benjamin Jevans (University College London)

for his talk "Going with your gut: using Enteric Nervous System Stem Cells for spinal cord injury repair, utilising the chick as a model organism."  

&

 

Mr Jack Leese (Imperial College on London )

Mr Jack Leese

for his talk "An investigation of the anatomy on the Infrapatellar Fat Pad: a cadaveric study."

Young Investigator Winners 2015

The Young Investigator Joint Oral Presentation Prize 2015, Winter Meeting of the Society Cambridge,  was awarded to:

Ms Alison Thomson (University of Aberdeen)

Ms Alison Thomson

for her talk ‘Organ Maturational and Developmental Pathologies in a Mouse Model of Severe SMA’. 

Ms Charlotte Burford (King’s College London and University of Cambridge)

Ms Charlotte Burford

for her talk  ‘Putting the handle back on the hammer:ossicle development in Professor Boyd’s embryos’.

Winner 2014

Dean MalikCongratulations to Dean Malik, PhD student with Dr Abigail Tucker at Kings College London, on winning the Anatomical Society Young Investigator Oral Presentation Prize at the Winter Meeting of the Society in Birmingham for his paper

‘External ear development: insights from mouse models’.  

Joint Runner-Up Young Investigator Oral Presentation Prizes 2014

Awardee Lead Author: Mr Matthew Parnall

Abstract Title: ‘A role for myosin in heart sarcomere maturation and function of the conduction system’.

Department: Room E170, Medical School, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH.

Awardee Lead Author: Mr Edwin Dickinson

Abstract Title: ‘Functional integration during development within the masticatory apparatus of a hard-object feeding primate (Cercocebusatys)’

Department: Centre for Anatomical and Human Sciences, Hull York Medical School   (In collaboration with the Department of Archaeology, University of York)

Congratulations to Alison May, PhD student with Dr Abigail Tucker at Kings College London, on winning the Anatomical Society Young Investigator Oral Presentation Prize at the Winter Meeting of the Society in Newcastle for her paper

‘Fgf signaling in the control of craniofacial and tracheal gland development’. 
Alison May