The BMFMS are delighted to announce this the following successful applicants for the 2012 research and travel bursaries.
Research Bursaries
Amy Walker, Newcastle University, £4909 (Awarded the Richard Johanson Prize)
Catherine Aiken, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge £5000
Martin Cameron, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich £5000
Manju Chandiramani, Imperial College, London £4620
Catherine Hillman-Cooper, Bristol University £5000
Fiona Menzies, Glasgow Univeristy, £3500
Katie Morris, Birmingham University, £3645
Travel Bursaries
Eleanor Jarvie, Glasgow University, £1000
This year we received 21 applications in total which were all of a high standard. Applications were graded by 18 members of the Executive Committee. The nature of the applications were wide-ranging including basic science research, clinical research and audit.
Last year’s successful recipients will be presenting posters of their work at the forthcoming conference in Glasgow.
Previous recipients include
2009
John Lartey (£2994), Marian Knight (£1000), Kelly Cohen (£1000), Inass Osman (£1,000), Catherine Williamson (£1594), Sarah Stock (£2,637.90), David Lissauer (£2,850) and Hsu Phern Chong (£3,000)
2008
Bryony Strachan and Mark Denbow (£1,600)
To fund travel to Uganda to develop an obstetric emergency training programme
2008 - Anna Kenyon (£1,982)
To fund a pilot study in preterm labour
2008 - Sarah Stock (£2,850)
To fund a pilot study of optimisation of a cell culture technique to use in the area of preterm labour.
2007
Anna David (£1027) funding to visit Professor Fionnuala McAuliffe’s unit at University College, Dublin to find out more about the new VisualSonics Vevo ultrasound biomicroscope. This is specifically designed for use in small animals such as rodents and Dr David was interested to find out how it could be used to measure uterine artery and umbilical artery volume flow in the pregnant mouse and to visualise the mouse fetus in vivo- Details. Marie Smith (£2944) and Martin Lupton (£2,500)
2006
Victoria Bills (£2,000) used to fund placements at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Pretoria Academic Hospital, and also Kalafong Hospital, in Pretoria, South Africa in order to recruit women with pre-eclampsia into a study investigating the role of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in the pathogenesis of the disease. Lucy Chappell (£1950) - Details and Yvonne Thoroughgood (£2,000).
2005
Gbemisola Okunoye (£1,000), Janice Gibson (£1,000), John Lartey (£1,900) and Ddharmintra Pasupathy (£2,000).