Hertford’s Medicine teaching team win awards

25 January 2012

The academic achievements of members of the Hertford College medicine teaching team have been recognised by recent awards.

Dr Gemma White (Lecturer in Biochemistry and Cell Biology) was one of seven young researchers identified by the British Heart Foundation as ‘Rising Stars of Research’ for her work on the role of cell migration in the development of coronary artery disease.

Dr Imran Mahmud (Lecturer in Physiology and Pharmacology) was awarded the Bristol Myers Squibb Prize in Cardiology.

David Greaves (Tutorial Fellow in Medicine) was awarded the title of Professor of Inflammation Biology in the recent University of Oxford Distinctions Exercise.

Mr Simon Brewster (Clinical Senior Research Fellow) was voted onto the British Association of Urological Surgeons Section of Oncology and Office of Education Committees and he organised a three day urological oncology conference in London on behalf of the European Assoication of Urology, which attracted over 1,000 international delegates.

Dr Roberta Dionello (Lecturer in Anatomy), a previous Hertford student herself (Medicine 1998), is undertaking a study visit to Stanford Medical School. She will be spending her time there with the musculoskeletal radiologists, to further her knowledge of her chosen specialty in imaging bones and joints, as well as performing interventions aimed at reducing pain from conditions such as arthritis.