Grants and Prizes
Undergraduate Essay Prize 2008
We are delighted to announce that the Society received 62 entrants for the competition in 2008. Each submission was assessed by a distinguished panel who marked and ranked each essay. Dr Joy Hinson (Council Education rep), oversaw the marking and ranking process and was highly impressed with the quality of essays submitted.
Ultimately there could only be one winner, and this year the top prize of £1000 was awarded to Marianne Neary, currently studying for a 2nd MB in preclinical medicine at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, for her essay entitled ‘Does my bum look big: or is it my jeans?’
The Society also awarded £250 to the following four runner up entrants:
- Neil Singh (Cambridge) – The role of mitochondrial dysfunction in the metabolic syndrome
- Meera Ladwa (ICL, London) – New hope for an old disease: why the endocrine system is the next target in major depression
- Matthew Rutherford (Glasgow) – The rennin-antiogensin-aldosterone system and a novel peptide: the future of cardio vascular endocrinology
- Louise Hunter (Edinburgh) – Fast and furious – aggression and the rapid non-genomic actions of stress hormones
The following five applicants were awarded a ‘highly commended’:
- Emily Adams (Oxford) – Undergraduate Endocrinology: the Big Issue
- Caroline Dugdale (Sheffield) – Testosterone: a future cardiovascular treatment?
- Lucy Leeman (Plymouth) – Polycystic ovary syndrome and the metformin controversy
- Faisal Rahman (Oxford) – Oestrogens, a rapid responder for our heartaches?
- Michael Wilson (Glasgow) – Controversy in thyroid disease – should this impact on the udergraduate medical curriculum?