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.