Previous Award Winners

• 2025 Jeremy Allgrove

• 2024 Nick Shaw

• 2023 Malcolm Donaldson

• 2022 Martin Savage

• 2020 Ieuan Hughes (presented in 2021)

• 2019 David Dunger

(Previously BSPED Research/Research and Education Award)

• 2025 Lydia Forestier-Zhang
  Improving Bone Health in Mouse Models of Spinal Muscular Atrophy

• 2025 Uttara Kurup 
  Detailed characterisation of novel, naturally occurring HMGA2 variants to ascertain their impact on linear growth

• 2024 Irina-Alexandra Bacila
  Understanding the effects of excessive weight on gonadal development and function in males with childhood obesity

• 2024 Rebecca Moon
  The effect of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists on musculoskeletal health in adolescents living with obesity

• 2023 Sinéad McGlacken-Byrne
  Exploring the role of the demethylase FTO in human ovary development and early-onset primary ovarian insufficiency

• 2023 Lucy Bray
  Collaborative development of education standards and resources for the emergency management of Adrenal Insufficiency: A mixed method, multi-phase project

• 2022 Harshini Katugampola
  Elucidating and modelling dynamic changes in the postnatal pituitary hormone milieu in preterm infants

• 2022 Katherine Hawton
  ROHHAD: British Paediatric Surveillance Unit (BPSU) Survey

• 2021 Phillip Murray
  Exploring Novel Human Glucocorticoid Response Markers in Children with Adrenal Insufficiency

• 2021 Sasha Howard
  International Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism Registry – I-HH: set up and development of a new rare disease registry

• 2019 Suet Ching Chen
  CoMBAT study: Clinical effects of metformin on bones in young adults with Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM)

• 2018 Toby Candler
  Epigenetic regulation of thyroid function: examining the potentially modifiable effect of differential PAX-8 methylation on thyroid function in children in The Gambia

• 2018 Li Chan
  Adrenal rescue of Familial Glucocorticoid Deficiency using donor specific reprogrammed cells in mice

• 2017 Claire Wood
  The role of VBP6, a steroid analogue, on growth and bone health in a novel mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

• 2016 Maria Güemes and Ved Arya
  Hypoglycaemia in GH deficient children: the role of continuous glucose monitoring

• 2016 Emile Hendriks
  Efficacy of intranasal glucagon in treating hypoglycaemia in children with type 1 diabetes

• 2015 Charlotte Elder
  Pharmacokinetic validation of a non-invasive Short Synacthen Test in children Beta Cell death in Type 1 Diabetes

• 2014  Chloe Bulwer
  Beta Cell death in Type 1 Diabetes

• 2014 Carles Gaston-Massuet
  Targeting the prostaglandins receptors (EP1-4) as novel therapeutic treatment to craniopharyngioma

• Quantification of oxytocin (OXT) and arginine-vasopressin (AVP) concentrations in patients with hypothalamic tumours and septo-optic dysplasia

• 2013 Senthil Senniappan
  Evaluation of efficacy and safety of mTOR inhibitors in the management of severe congenital hyperinsulinism

• 2012 Rakesh Amin
  Healthcare Provision and Adverse Outcomes for a Nationally Representative Cohort of Women with Turner Syndrome.

• 2012 Pooja Sachdev
  The BOW Study (Bone in Weight Loss): The effect of profound weight loss following intragastric balloon placement on skeletal integrity in severely obese adolescents

• 2011 Evelien Gevers
  Does SOX2 regulate bone stem/progenitor cells?

• 2011 Akash Sinha
  Understanding the role of Vitamin D in skeletal muscle function using ³¹p-Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

• 2010 Dr Paul Dimitri, Sheffield
  A study to develop novel ultrashort-time (UTE) MR sequence analysis of trabecular and cortical bone compartments in children and adolescents.

• 2010 Dr Catherine Peters, London
  Expression of TVA as a tool for targeting gene expression in pancreatic beta cells: establishing a transgenic mouse colony.

• 2009 Dr Christina Wei, Bristol
  Mechanism of Impaired glucose tolerance in survivors of childhood leukaemia treated with and without bone marrow transplantation (BMT) and total body irradiation (TBI)

• 2009 Dr G. Ajayakumar Thankamony, Cambridge
  Developmental origins of Type 2 Diabetes: Tolerance of Fasting and circulating IGF-I levels

• 2008 Dr John Gregory, Cardiff
  Development of a novel ex vivo femoral slice model for the study of osteonecrosis and other bone diseases

• 2008 Dr Sze Choong Wong, Glasgow
  The Effects Of Chronic Inflammatory Disease On Growth And Skeletal Development In The Socs2 Deficient Mouse

(Previously Ipsen BSPED Paediatric Endocrine Nurse Award/BSPED Paediatric Endocrine Nurse Award)

• 2025 Emma Snow and Robyn Gilbey Cross
  Developing a Nurse-Led Achondroplasia Clinic

• 2025 Jennifer Gilbert
  Retrospective service evaluation to evaluate how a dose of 0.15units/kg versus 0.10units/kg of insulin affects the success rate of the ITT in pubertal children considering GH, cortisol and glucose responses.

• 2024 Sarah Worthington
  A real-time data collection App to improve clinical management of Congenital Hyperinsulinism

• 2023 Kate Davies
  The clinical validity and acceptability of alternative methods of monitoring in young people with CAH

• 2023 Christine Desmond
  Successful Integration of the Complex Excess Weight (CEW) nursing role into the Paediatric Endocrine Nursing Service

• 2022 Sally Tollerfield
  Think Adrenal!
  

• 2022 Helen Smart
  Periods - Growing Up Social Story

• 2021 Rosie Anderson
  Pilot stepped-care pathway for eating problems in Type 1 diabetes (T1DM)

• 2021 Thilipan Thaventhiran
  A cross-sectional survey and service evaluation on the provision of mental health support in the care of children with short stature

• 2020 (not awarded in 2020)

• 2019 Stephanie Ward
  Service user feedback on the Gender Identity Development Service delivered at University College London Hospital (UCLH)

• 2018 Rebecca Broadbent
  Developing an E-information resource tool for young people (YP) at Transition to Adult Services

• 2017 Christine Desmond
  Paediatric Nurse-Led Virtual Thyroid Clinic

• 2016 (not awarded in 2016)

• 2015 Lee Martin
  Review of the nurse specialist's role in caring for children and young people with Cushing's syndrome

• 2014 Kate Davies
  International study to examine the use of social media in endocrine nursing and research

• 2013 (not awarded in 2013)

• 2012 Pauline Musson
  Managing children with symptomatic vitamin D deficiency: the role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist.

• 2011 Nicky Nicholl
  Psychological Care for Families affected by Disorders of Sex Development (DSD)

• 2010 Mrs Lindsey Rigby
  Setting up of a dedicated specialised multidisciplinary out-patient clinic for children with Congenital Hyperinsulinism (CHI).

• 2011 Helen Storr
  Interplay of the fetal adrenal cortex, placental corticotrophin-releasing hormone (CRH) and placental kisspeptin in the maintenance of pregnancy and parturition.

• 2010 Dr Rod Mitchell, Edinburgh
  The effect of exposure to the proposed endocrine disruptor di (n-butyl) phthalate on development of the human fetal testis using a xenograft approach.

• 2009 Professor Mehul Dattani, London
  Kallmann syndrome and Congenital Hypopituitarism: an overlap in pathogenesis?

• 2008 Dr Mandy Drake, Edinburgh
  Epigenetic modifications in the early life programming of disease

• 2011 Noeleen Lovell
  Structured Knowledge and Information Programme