Young Investigator Awards
WINNERS 2018
Congratulations to the winners of the Young Investigators Awards 2018
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The Winner of 2018's Young Investigator Award (Basic Science) went to
Martha Zakrzewski, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
The inflammatory bowel disease protective variant IL23R is associated with an increased abundance of beneficial bacteria and diversity in the ileal microbiome in healthy individuals
Lochlan Fennell, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Transcript profiling of KRAS mutant colorectal cancers to identify clinically actionable drug targets in subsets of cancers
Finalists
Anton Lord, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Development and evaluation of a risk assessment tool to improve clinical triage accuracy for colonoscopic investigations
Muhammad Asif Shahzad, Princess Alexandra Hospital
Early or Delayed Endoscopy for Oesophageal Meat Bolus Impaction “Get up at midnight or wait until Morning?”
Abdulnasser Lafta, The Prince Charles Hospital
A clinical pathway to manage patients with decompensated cirrhosis; assessing the level of compliance with evidence-based guidelines
Rohit Gupta, The Prince Charles Hospital
Understanding MHE: Screening, Diagnosis and Complications
Andrew Lee, Princess Alexandra Hospital
A decentralised, multidisciplinary model of care facilitates treatment of hepatitis C in regional & remote Queensland
Emily Lim, Townsville Hospital
Linked color imaging versus white light: a randomised tandem colonoscopy study of adenoma miss rates
