RAMI Research Awards, Wednesday 6th November 2019

06/11/2019 in Corrigan & Graves Halls, RCPI, 6, Kildare Street, Dublin 2

The Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland in association with the Irish Journal of Medical Science held a very successful event on Wednesday 6th November 2019.   The awards were open to all those involved in Irish medical research who had a clinical research paper published in an indexed journal.

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Congratulations to all the winners here listed:

  • Biomedical Sciences   

Dr. David P Burns,    “Inspiratory pressure-generating capacity is preserved during ventilatory and non-ventilatory behaviours in young dystrophic mdx mice despite profound diaphragm muscle weakness” J Physiol. 

  •    Dermatology             

Dr. Stephanie Menzies, “Declining Incidence of Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer in Organ Transplant Recipients” Br J Dermatol. 

  • Endocrinology 

Dr. Delia Bogdanet, “Despite insulin therapy in women with IADPSG diagnosed GDM desired pregnancy outcomes are still not achieved”  Diabetes Res Clin Pract.      

  • General Practice 

Dr. Joe Gallagher, “B-Type Natriuretic Peptide and Ventricular Dysfunction in the Prediction of Cardiovascular Events and Death in Hypertension” Am J Hypertens.               

  • Medical Microbiology 

Dr. Meera Tandan, “Role of patient descriptors in predicting antimicrobial resistance in urinary tract infections using a decision tree approach a retrospective cohort study” Int J Med Inform.             

  • Oncology 

Dr. Elspeth Ward, “Epigenome wide SRC-1 Mediated Gene Silencing Represses Cellular Differentiation in Advanced Breast Cancer” Clin Cancer Res.             

  • Ophthalmology

Dr. Maedbh Rhatigan, “Prevalence of age-related macular degeneration associated genetic risk factors and 4-year progression data in the Irish population” Br J Ophthalmol.               

  • Psychiatry   

Dr. David Cotter, “Complement pathway changes at age 12 are associated with psychotic experiences at age 18 in a longitudinal population-based study”  Mol Psychiatry.          

  • Public Health Medicine/Epidemiology       

Dr. Daniela Rohde, “Cognitive impairment vulnerability and mortality post-ischemic stroke a five year follow-up of the ASPIRE-S cohort” J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis.         

  • Surgery

Dr. Katie O’ Sullivan, “pSTAT3 Levels Have Divergent Expression Patterns and Associations with Survival in Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Adenocarcinoma of the Oesophagus” Int J Mol Sci.