ISHG Young Investigator Awards
The ISHG Young Investigator award is awarded for the best oral
presentation at the ISHG annual conference. Eligibility for the ISHG Young
Investigator Award is restricted to clinicians in training, graduate students or
young postdoctoral fellows presenting work done during their PhD projects.
Additional prizes are awarded for best postgraduate and best postdoctoral work
presented.
Awards from 2007 meeting
Young Investigator Award: (Postgraduate Oral Presentation) Mr
William Gilks, Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group, IMM & Dept. of
Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin
Best Postgraduate Poster Presentation: Ms Evelyn Skehan, Dept
of Pathology, University College Cork
Best Postdoctoral Oral Presentation: Dr Anne-Marie Murphy,
The National Centre for Inherited Metabolic Disorders (NCIMD) and National
Centre for Medical Genetics (NCMG), Dublin
Best Postdoctoral Poster Presentation: Dr Elaine Kenny,
Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group, IMM and Dept. of Psychiatry, Trinity
College Dublin
Previous Awards
2004
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Vivienne McConnell
Identification of a locus for exudative age-related
macular degeneration
V McConnell, G Silvestri, AE Hughes. Depts of Medical
Genetics and Ophthalmology & Vision Science, Queen's University Belfast.
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2003
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(info temporarily unavailable)
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2002
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A. Aherne
Identification of an IMPDH1 mutation in autosomal dominant
Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP10)
A Aherne, A Kennan, S Bowne, SP Daiger, MM Humphries, GJ
Farrar, P Kenna, P Humphries. The Ocular Genetics Unit, Trinity College Dublin 2
and Human Genetics Centre and Dept. of Ophthalmology, University of Texas,
Houston.
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2001
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Shane McKee
Benign Familial Infantile Convulsions - a clinically and
genetically heterogeneous disorder
SA McKee & AE Hughes. Dept of Medical Genetics, Queen's University Belfast.
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2000
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A. Friel
Investigating the presence and expression of the AZF candidate genes in a group of patients
suffering from male infertility.
A Friel, M Maher, M Glennon,T Smith, A Nolan, D Egan, JA Houghton. National Diagnostics
Centre,
BioResearch Ireland, National University of Ireland; Fertility Unit, University College Hospital;
Dept of Microbiology, National University of Ireland, Galway.
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1999
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Inge Pedersen
Altered imprinting and loss of heterzygosity of the paternally expressed gene PEG1 in breast cancer.
I. Pedersen, P. Dervan, D. Broderick, M. Harrison, N. Miller, E. Delaney, O'Shea D, McGoldrick A, Keating G,Tobin B,
McCann A. Dept of Pathology, Biotechnology Centre, University College Dublin and Mater Misericordiae Hospital.
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1998
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Collette Hand
The autosomal recessive Congential Hereditary Endothelial
Dystrophy (CHED) gene is mapped to chromosome 20p by homozygosity mapping.
CK Hand, DL Harmon, SM
Kennedy, J Susan Fitzsimon, LMT Collum, NA Parfrey, Dept of Pathology,
University College Dublin and St Vincent's Hospital, Dublin 4, Ireland. Dept of Pathology
and Ophthalmology, Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin 2, Ireland.
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