The Rob Clarke Awards were one of the highlights of this year’s Member Forum held on Friday 2 December. The award recognises excellence in undergraduate physiology projects.
This year, 11 students (note: one couldn’t attend) were shortlisted for an Abstract Award and invited to present a poster at the Member Forum for final judging. The judges were impressed with all the finalists but receiving the overall highest scores was Elena-Georgiana Capbun from University of Cambridge, UK who presented her poster titled ‘Comparative expression of carbonic anhydrases IX and XII in human prostate cancer’. The judges were impressed with Elena-Georgiana for the huge amount of work undertaken, the diverse techniques used and the depth of her knowledge on the topic, which she clearly presented.
Winner – awarded Rob Clarke Presentation Award
Elena-Georgiana Capbun (University of Cambridge, UK)
Runners up
Luke McAuley (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland)
Peter Panizza (The University of Western Australia)
Finalists – Rob Clarke Abstract Winners
Aaliya Ashik, University of Manchester, UK
Understanding structural alterations to the atrial microtubule network in heart failure
Alokya Balagamage, King’s College London, UK
Maternal Obesity and the Effects of Sulforaphane on White Adipose Tissue Mass and Cell Size
Elena-Georgiana Capbun, University of Cambridge, UK
Comparative expression of carbonic anhydrases IX and XII in human prostate cancer
Louise Cope, University of Aberdeen, UK
Repurposing of a selective phosphodiesterase 1 inhibitor for pulmonary arterial hypertension
Anna Devari, University of Birmingham, UK
Exploring a potential extracellular action of succinate on carotid body activity mediated by gpr91
Roisin Dowd, University College Dublin, Ireland (not in attendance)
Assessing the Structure-Function Relationship of Obligatory and Accessory Respiratory Muscles in Early Dystrophic Disease
Luke McAuley, The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Scaffold-mediated non-viral transfection of astrocytes and meningeal cells with Cx43 siRNA
Kamil Moosavi, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Effect of repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC) on hypercapnic air hunger induced in healthy individuals
Peter Panizza, The University of Western Australia
In vitro cyclosporin A exposure does not prevent hypochlorous acid induced muscle weakness in the mouse extensor digitorum longus
Yashika Relan, University of Dundee, UK
Glutaredoxin-overexpression attenuates chronic angiotensin-II induced hypertension and changes cardiac dynamics
Parth Tagdiwala, University College London, UK
Development of contractile function and motility patterns within the intestine
Many congratulations to all the awardees and a huge thank you to all the judges who were involved, including:
Professor David Atwell, University College London, UK
Doctor Daniel Brayson, King’s College London, UK
Doctor Bradley Elliot, University of Westminster, London, UK
Doctor Catherine Hall, University of Sussex, UK
Professor Katya Mileva, London South Bank University, London, UK
Professor Hugh Montgomery, University College London, UK
Professor Andrew Parker, University of Oxford, UK
Doctor Caroline Pellet-Many, University College London, UK
Professor Michael Taggart, Newcastle University, UK
Professor Mike Tipton, University of Portsmouth, UK