08 Aug 2024
The Society would like to congratulate the awardees of the second round of our Society grants! The Society’s Grants Panel met on 2 July to review grant applications received in the second round of 2024.
A total of 60 applications were received across the 5 grant types and the Grants Panel made awards to 46 members with a total of £63,827.38 awarded by the Society in this second round. The overall success rate was 76.7%.
Join us in celebrating the second round awardees, detailed below:
Research Grants
Dr Charlotte Hall (William Harvey Research Institute) Defining the role of gene methylation status in delayed and normal puberty
Dr Cheukyau Luk (University of Leeds) Exploring the therapeutic potential of endothelial-derived malonate in white adipocyte metabolism
Dr Cristina Perez-Ternero and Professor Li Chan (Queen Mary University of London) Understanding the nature of glucose dysregulation in Down syndrome
Dr Edouard G Mills (Imperial College London) Investigating Intranasal Kisspeptin as a Novel and Effective Delivery Route for Stimulating Reproductive Hormone Secretion in Humans
Dr Elisa Villalobos (Newcastle University) Role of stiffness in adipogenesis of preadipocytes and fibro-adipogenic progenitors
Dr Hannah Maude (Imperial College London) Exploring mitochondrial DNA in metabolic and endocrine disease: an improved bioinformatics approach
Mr Jack David Kendall, Dr Robert Gifford and Dr Natalie Homer (Leeds Beckett University) Test-Retest Stability of Salivary Steroid Hormones in Simulated Field-Based Research
Miss Lucy Beevors and Dr Paul Foster (University of Birmingham) Establishing Mucinous Ovarian Cancer Organoid Models to Characterise their Steroid Metabolism
Nini Nguyen and Professor Li Chan (William Harvey Research Institute) Characterization of the Melanocortin 2 receptor gain-of-function mutation in a novel murine model (Mc2rF278C/F278C) of Cushing’s syndrome
Professor Stafford Lightman and Olly Troy (Bristol University) The Effects of Chronic Synthetic Glucocorticoid Treatment on Learning and Memory in Rats
Meeting Grant
Professor Graham Williams (Imperial College London) 15th International Workshop on Resistance to Thyroid Hormone and Thyroid Hormone Action
Teaching Grant
Dr Gabriela da Silva Xavier (University of Birmingham) Alterations in ganglioside GM3 concentrations in response to growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor excess in 3T3L1 adipocytes
Professor Sadaf Farooqi (Addenbrookes Hospital Cambridge) Neurodevelopmental mechanisms involved in human obesity
Dr Lydia Daniels Gatward (King's College Hospital) The role of sex hormones in contributing to sex differences in beta cell function in diabetes
Dr Craig Beall (University of Exeter) Feasibility project: Science communication summer studentship
Katherine White (Maidstone Hospital) Application for the Society for Endocrinology and Oxford Brooks University’s Master’s Module in Endocrine Nursing
Outreach Grant
Professor Shareen Forbes (University of Edinburgh) Beyond insulin – a podcast about Type 1 diabetes for the general public
Travel Grants (attendance at meetings) were awarded to 29 members.
Keep an eye out on our social media for updates on what our awardees are getting up to!
The final grant application deadline for this year is 11:59 (BST) on Wednesday 2 October 2024. Apply online: https://www.endocrinology.org/grants-and-awards/