Welcome to the MCRC early career section

Here you will find information about the MCRC Early Career Investigators (junior clinicians, tenure-track fellows, postdocs, postgrads and technical staff). As this group provides and completes much of the fundamental research within the MCRC, greater group cohesion and visibility are the primary aims.

News

The MCRC Early Career afternoon will be held on October 14th. The schedule for the event is available. This event is being kindly sponsored by

Adil Rajwani won the Young Research Workers’ Prize at the Annual British Cardiovascular Society Conference. His studies on IGF binding protein-1 have been supervised by S Wheatcroft, M Kearney and K Porter.

MCRC career development grants were recently awarded to a number of promising researchers across various faculties. MCRC Career Development Grants were awarded to Paul Cordell, Samuel Fountain, Paul Manna, Nicola Mutch and Richard Walton.

Tawqeer Rashid won first prize in the 'Surgeons in Training' session at the recent 32nd Charing Cross International Symposium.

Matthew Kahn was awarded the British Atherosclerosis Society's 2009 Michael Davies Young Investigator Award for his work on endothelial repair under the supervision of Stephen Wheatcroft and Mark Kearney.

Reena Aggarwal was awarded the British Journal of Surgery prize for best scientific paper at the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland in November 2009 for her work with Ramzi Ajjan and Julian Scott on clot structure in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm.

Calendar of Events

If you wish to add an event that may be of interest to the MCRC Researcher Support Division please contact Dr. Mark Rakobowchuk. Please contact Dr. Matt Gage 2 days in advance to confirm attending skills tutorials.

Resources

Young investigator representatives Dr. Matt Gage and Dr. Mark Rakobowchuk are members of the MCRC and may be contacted regarding this website or activities related to young investigators within the MCRC.