The Society would like to congratulate the awardees of the third round of our Society grants this year! The Society’s Grants Committee met on 12 November to review grant applications received in the final round of 2024.

A total of 83 applications were received across the 5 grant types and the Grants Committee made awards to 61 members with a total of £76,488.40 awarded by the Society in this second round. The overall success rate was 73%.

Join us in celebrating the third-round awardees, detailed below: 

Research Grant

Jiawen Dong (University of Oxford) Investigating the impact of human hepatocyte GPER1 activation on metabolic pathways that drive the development of metabolic-dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease              

Thomas Hill (University of Oxford) The role of intra-islet glucagon-like peptide-1 signalling on the dysregulation of hypoglycaemia-induced glucagon secretion in type 1 diabetes

Niamh Martin (Imperial College London) Determining the psychiatric side effects of cabergoline in the treatment of prolactinomas

Selvambigai Manivannan (University of Birmingham) Investigating the role of migrasomes in endocrine cancer cell migration   

Kate Lines (Oxford Brookes University) Epigenetics of canine insulinomas: a good model of human disease?          

Angela Taylor (University of Birmingham) Evaluating the clinical validity of home blood-testing kits for steroid hormone analysis

Lowri Allen (University Hospital of Wales) The relationship between maternal kisspeptin in pregnancy in type 1 diabetes and maternal glycaemic control and fetal hyperinsulinaemia              

Jiping Zhang (Imperial College London) Investigating the direct neuronal innervation of the pancreas by the stomach             

Jennifer Fraser (University of Edinburgh) Investigating the impact of androgen deprivation therapy on the osteocyte secretome        

Ana Crastin (University of Birmingham) Macrophage-related immune dysregulation in patients with adrenocortical tumours and cortisol excess

Charlotte Bevan (Imperial College London) Utilising a prostate cancer patient-derived explant (PDE) model for evaluation of a novel therapeutic agent

Meeting Grant

Kelsie Johnson (Liverpool John Moores University) Women’s Endocrinology Nutrition and Physiology Symposia: Taking Science to Practice

Teaching Grant

Joanne Wardle (Diabetes Resource Centre) Teaching Grant Application Proposal

Rhianne Mason Macleod (Diabetes & Endocrine Centre)  To develop a provision of staff education on steroid safety at a district hospital, with the aim of reducing avoidable harm to patients with known steroid deficiency

Gabriela da Silva Xavier  (University of Birmingham) Student awards for academic and research excellence in endocrinology

Samantha Robinson (The Rotherham Foundation NHS Trust)  Masters in Endocrinology for Nurses

Sylvia Michael (Endocrine Department, London) Master-Level Module Nursing

Outreach Grant

Anna Woollven (British Thyroid Foundation) Medical query answering service and telephone helpline to empower people to live better with their thyroid condition

Punith Kempegowda (University of Birmingham) Empowering University Societies through Evidence-Based Workshops to Support Women with PCOS

Catriona Taylor  (Society Affiliated Patient Support Group(s)) Collaborative patient support group engagement with healthcare professionals to raise the collective voices of our groups, the patients we support and the endocrine conditions and rare diseases we represent

Travel Grants (attendance at meetings) were awarded to 41 members.

Keep an eye out on our social media for updates on what our awardees are getting up to!