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Award and Prize Winners

Many prizes were given to young endocrinologists with high scoring oral communications and poster presentations. We congratulate all winners:

Oral communication winners

Each winner received a prize of £500.

Owais Chaudhri (London)
OC17, Kisspeptin-54 potently stimulates luteinising hormone release during the preovulatory phase of the menstrual cycle in healthy human females.

Manuel Lemos (Oxford)
OC22, Mice deleted for a Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1 (MEN1) allele develop pancreatic, pituitary and parathyroid tumours in association with hypercalcaemia.

Overall poster winners

Each winner received a prize of £500.

Irina Grigorieva (Oxford)
P2, Mechanisms of DNA binding by the transcription factor GATA3 revealed by mutations causing the Hypoparathyroidism-deafness-renal dysplasia (HDR) syndrome.

Elaine Murphy (London)
P328, T3 rather than TSH mediates the effects of altered thyroid status on bone turnover in man.

Poster winners by category

Each winner received a prize of £100.

Bone

Patrick O’Shea (London)
P16, Wnt/Beta-catenin Signalling is Abrogated in Mice with a Targeted Mutation in the Thyroid Hormone Receptor (TR) Beta Gene and a Thyrotoxic Skeletal Phenotype.

Clinical practice/governance and case reports

Teng-Teng Chung (London)
P54, Safety of growth hormone replacement in patients with non-irradiated pituitary and peri-pituitary tumours

David Carty (Glasgow)
P62, Diffuse Idiopathic Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Cell Hyperplasia presenting as Cyclical Cushings Syndrome- A Case Report.

Comparative

Fadil Hannan (Oxford)
P116, Genome comparison between human chromosome 19q13 and syntenic region on mouse chromosome 7 reveals loss, in man, of 5.1Mb containing 4 mouse G-protein coupled receptors: relevance to familial benign hypocalciuric hypercalcaemia type 3.

Diabetes, metabolism and cardiovascular

Daniel Morganstein (London)
P162, The importance of gene repression for metabolic regulation in human fat

Kylie Hewitt (Birmingham)
P178, Abnormalities in Lipogenesis and Lipolysis in Mice Lacking Hexose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (H6PDH)

Endocrine tumours and neoplasia

Vicki Smith (Birmingham)
P213, The Sodium Iodide Symporter (NIS) Is Repressed By PTTG Via The Human NIS Upstream Enhancer (hNUE)

Gelsy Arianna Lupoli (Naples, Italy)
P224, Clinical impact of thyroglobulin epitope recognition pattern in patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma and positive thyroglobulin antibodies

Growth and development

Michael Bowl (Oxford)
P126, Characterisation of parathyroid-specific transcription factor Glial Cells Missing Homolog B (GCMB) in 3 families with autosomal recessive hypoparathyroidism.

Su-Ping Chang (Edinburgh)
P133, The mosaic pattern of 21-OHase/LacZ transgene expression changes during organogenesis and growth of the adrenal cortex

Neuroendocrinology and behaviour

Alexandra Sinclair (Birmingham)
P237, A putative role for 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1 in the regulation of cerebrospinal fluid dynamics.

Reproduction

Sharron Stubbs (London)
P257, Expression of the Anti-Mullerian hormone type II receptor (AMHRII) and related Smads in human ovarian follicles.

Steroids

Roland Stimson (Edinburgh)
P282, Acute improvement in insulin sensitivity by PPARgamma-agonists is not mediated by inhibition of glucocorticoid action in humans.

Andrew Berry (Manchester)
P284, Identification of Novel Modulators of Glucocorticoid Sensitivity.

Thyroid

Elizabeth Kemp (Sheffield)
P292, The Calcium-Sensing Receptor is a Target of Autoantibodies in Patients with Autoimmune Polyendocrine Syndrome Type 1.