Award winners ISCOMS 2011

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Plenary Award 1st Price
Renske Brander from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, received a 12 month subscription to the Lancet and a cheque of €1.500,- to visit a congress of her choice for her plenary presentation entitled: Natural Gene Therapy occurs in all patients with the generalized variant of non-Herlitz junctional epidermolysis bullosa caused by COL17A1 mutations.

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Plenary Award 2nd Price
Arif Khokhar from Oxford University, United Kingdom, received a 12 month subscription to the Lancet and a cheque of €500,- to visit a congress of his choice for his plenary presentation entitled: Effect of post-natal dexamethasone on the premature infant. 

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Plenary Presentation: Audience Award
Arif Khokhar from Oxford University, United Kingdom, did also win the audience award and received another 12 month subscription to the Lancet and a cheque of €500,- to visit a congress of his choice for his plenary presentation entitled: Effect of post-natal dexamethasone on the premature infant. 

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Plenary Presentation: First Year Jury Award
Guus Bol from the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands received a 12 month subscription to the British Medical Journal for his plenary presentation entitled: Radiation sensitizing through inhibition of NHEJ by the novel small molecule inhibitor RK-33 in lung cancer .

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Oral Performance Award
Pavitra Jayaramachandran from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, received a 12 month subscription to the New Engeland Journal of Medicine for her oral presentation entitled: Optical treatment of Nystagmus.

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Poster Performance Award
Catherine Crowe from the department of Medicine, Galway, Ireland received a 12 month subscription to the New Engeland Journal of Medicine for her poster presentation entitled: Gastric Sleeve resection is a better bariatrc surgical option when compared to laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAP Banding) 

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Oral Research Award
Irena Hudecova from the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia received a 12 month subscription to the New Engeland Journal of Medicine for her oral presentation entitled: Noninvasive prediction of the fetal RhD status in management of Rhesus alloimunization in pregnancy. 

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Poster Research Award
Sergiu Darabant from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy ‘Iuliu Hatieganu, Cluj-Napoca, Romania received a 12 month subscription to the New Engeland Journal of Medicine for his poster presentation entitled: Echocardiographic investigation of chronic pulmonary hypertension and rigth ventricle systolic performance using the right ventricular outflow tract spectral Doppler signal.

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Abstract Award: Clinical Sciences
Licette Liu, from the University Medical Centre Groningen, The Netherlands received €100,- for her oral presentation entitled: Vitamin D: a prognostic marker in heart failure patients?

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Abstract Award: Basic Sciences
Ke-xin Wen, from the Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands received €100,- for his oral presentation entitled: Genomic analysis of Th17 cells from patients with early rheumatoid arthritis treated with vitamin D.

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Abstract Award: Health Sciences and Primary Care
Christina Fuller, from the University Medical center, Groningen, The Netherlands received €100,- for her oral presentation entitled: Musical experience and quality of life in cochlear implant recipient.

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World Health Award
Matthew Smith from the Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, United Kingdom received a 12 month subscription to the World Health Bulletin for his oral presentation entitled: What is going wrong? Common themes between serious clinical incidents: an analysis of serious patient safety incidents in a major UK teaching hospital trust.