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Awards and Bursaries
Welcome to the Awards and Bursaries section, a place to celebrate exceptional accomplishments in the field of gastroenterology and hepatology, and provide support to members in enhancing their knowledge.
Our aim is to recognise the outstanding achievements of individuals who have made significant research contributions, as well as offer support to trainees travelling to conferences to present their research, supporting their professional development and broadening their knowledge.
You can find upcoming awards and bursaries for which you can apply or nominate a colleague, as well as a comprehensive list of previous winners from the last few years. Please note some awards and bursaries are only available to members.
We also have research funding opportunities available here.
BSG Awards
BSG Bursaries
Past Winners
The list below comprises previous winners from the last few years.
Arthur Hurst Lecture | Granted at the president’s discretion, winner gives keynote lecture at the Annual Meeting, and receives a copy of the Arthur Hurst lectures book rebound to include their lecture, and inscribed by the President. | ![]() University Of New South Wales |
President’s Medal | Granted at the president’s discretion and awarded at the Annual Meeting to two recipients who receive free registration for the day and travel expenses. | ![]() |
Frances Avery Jones Award | Encourages research by gastroenterologists working in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. | ![]() Cambridge Stem Cell Institute From organoids to organs: A journey of clinical translation |
Sheila Sherlock Lecture | An invited lecture by the BSG Liver section. | ![]() King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Liver Transplantation |
New Perspectives Lecture | An invited lecture by the BSG President. | ![]() Barts & The London School of Medicine and Dentistry Caring for the Profession |
Leadership and Management Prize | Identifies and promotes talented trainee leaders nationally in order to promote leadership in gastroenterology for the future. | ![]() Clinical Research Fellow/ST5, Imperial College London |
Out of Programme | Designed to help gastroenterology trainees access training opportunities that aren’t available as part of their local training rotations. | ![]() Clinical Research Fellow, Blizard Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine & Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London |
Young Gastroenterologist of the Year – Clinical & Translational Science | Identifies and promotes talented trainee clinical scientists nationally in order to promote research and science in gastroenterology for the future. | ![]() Gastroenterology SpR, University College London Hospital |
Nurse Award for Service Development – Winner | Identifies an individual or a team who have made a demonstrable positive impact on patient care. | ![]() |
Nurse Award for Service Development – Runner up | Identifies an individual or a team who have made a demonstrable positive impact on patient care. | ![]() |
The Alistair McIntyre Prize for Improving Gastroenterology Training | The award is to support a project looking at an aspect of training in Gastroenterolgy. | Dr Mohammad Farhad Peerally, ST7 Gastroenterology, University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS Trust |
CSSC Service Development Prize | The award is for an individual or team that has made a demonstrable impact on patient care by innovative service improvement. | ![]() |
CSSC Service Development Prize – Runner up | The award is for an individual or team that has made a demonstrable impact on patient care by innovative service improvement. | ![]() |
CSSC Service Development Prize – Runner up | The award is for an individual or team that has made a demonstrable impact on patient care by innovative service improvement. | ![]() |
NIHR Awards | Category A: Principal Investigator (PI) or Chief Investigator (CI) making an outstanding contribution in design, conduct and dissemination of research, and/or building research capacity | ![]() Professor of Gastroenterology at Newcastle University and South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust |
NIHR Awards | Category B: Early Career Researcher and those new to research showing a significant contribution to recruitment into NIHR portfolio studies | ![]() Hepatology Consultant at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at UCL Medical School |
NIHR Awards | Category C: Research Team making an outstanding contribution to the NIHR portfolio studies | ![]() Consultant Gastroenterologist, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust |
NIHR Awards | Special award: Special recognition for outstanding contribution in building research capacity | ![]() Consultant Gastroenterologist, Hull University Teaching Hospital |
Gut Award | Awarded to the best basic science abstract for oral presentation. | ![]() Infliximab is associated with attenuated immunogenicity to BNT162b2 and ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 SARS-CoV-2 vaccines |
Frontline Gastroenterology Award | Awarded to the highest scoring abstract for oral presentation. | Dr Alex Adams, Bioinformatician, University Of Oxford ADmission Model for Intensification of Therapy in Acute Severe Colitis (ADMIT-ASC) |
BMJ Open Gastroenterology Award | Honours the best clinical science abstract for oral presentation. | ![]() An RCT of autologous stem-cell transplantation in treatment refractory Crohn’s disease (low-intensity therapy evaluation): ASTIClite |