BTS celebrates the BTS Medical Student Awards for 2023

These prestigious Medical Student Awards are highly competitive and are awarded to the very best basic, translational or clinical research performed in the UK respiratory community by Medical students. Qualifying projects can include clinical audit, quality improvement, systematic review writing or laboratory work. The prizes are awarded based on the quality and content of the research performed and the quality of the abstract submitted.

Jafar Cain (Winner)

Jafar of the University of Manchester, Faculty of Biology, is the winner of this year’s BTS Medical Student Abstract Prize for his work titled “Circadian patterns in immune cell trafficking in chronic allergic airways disease”

Jai Praveen (Highly Commended)

Congratulations also are in order for the highly commended researcher Jai Praveen of University of Edinburgh Medical School, for his research titled “Lung function outcomes in military
personnel who sustained combatrelated traumatic injury; the ADVANCE study.”