Searchable abstracts of presentations at key conferences in endocrinology

ea0044fut2.1 | Futures 2: Mapping your route through the Research Funding maze | SFEBES2016

Starter grants and building your pilot data

Stimson Roland

Obtaining research independence and running your own research group can seem very far away at the end of your PhD and during your early postdoctoral career. However, starter grants are an invaluable resource to help you down this path, allowing you to develop and strengthen your research career, pursue independent strands of research, improve your ability to write grants and make you more competitive to obtain more substantial funding.Starter grants are ...

ea0050ec1.3 | Alternative career pathways | SFEBES2017

A career in the charitable sector

McIntosh Rebecca

Since completing a PhD in Developmental Neurobiology at King’s College London, I have worked as a Grants Adviser at the Wellcome Trust. Not-for-profit organisations like the Wellcome Trust hold a diverse range of career opportunities for scientists with PhD and post-doctoral experience, from communications to research management. In this short overview talk I’ll give an insight into the role of the Grants Adviser, the opportunities for scientists in the charitable se...

ea0050ec1.3 | Alternative career pathways | SFEBES2017

A career in the charitable sector

McIntosh Rebecca

Since completing a PhD in Developmental Neurobiology at King’s College London, I have worked as a Grants Adviser at the Wellcome Trust. Not-for-profit organisations like the Wellcome Trust hold a diverse range of career opportunities for scientists with PhD and post-doctoral experience, from communications to research management. In this short overview talk I’ll give an insight into the role of the Grants Adviser, the opportunities for scientists in the charitable se...

ea0007s47 | How to compete for grant funding | BES2004

How to compete for grant funding

Lowry P

I guess the fact that I was awarded my first MRC grant 30 years ago and my present programme grant runs out at the end of next year gives me at least some personal experience in writing successful grants and thus the reason the Society has asked me to give this talk. In the early 90s I was also a member of the Neuroscience and Mental Health Board of the MRC and so was able to observe the mechanism of grant assessment first hand.I will discuss the various...

ea0034se1.4 | (1) | SFEBES2014

The Foundling hospital

Cooke Brian

In 1739 Thomas Coram was granted a Royal Charter to establish the Foundling hospital for the care of abandoned babies. The hospital was established in Bloomsbury and had the patronage of leading cultural figures of the day, including William Hogarth and Handel. Babies were admitted by ballot (white ball in, red ball maybe and black ball rejected), given a new name and fostered until the age of 5. Upon admittance to the hospital they severed all contact with their foster parent...

ea0028s7.1 | Latitude: Endocrine consequences of human migration | SFEBES2012

The origins and evolution of lactase persistence

Thomas Mark

Most Europeans take drinking milk for granted; it’s the everyday consumption of an everyday drink. But for most adult humans, indeed, for most adult mammals, milk is very far from an everyday drink. Milk is something that we have specifically evolved to be able to consume in the relatively recent past. The ability to digest the sugar in milk is called Lactase Persistence and Darwin’s engine of evolutionary change, natural selection, has probably worked harder on this...

ea0059ec2.2 | Navigating the academic | SFEBES2018

Early Careers: navigating the academic pathway. The clinical academic route

Salem Victoria

I will talk about my own experience pursuing a PhD, postdoctoral research and ultimately an Intermediate Clinician Scientist Fellowship alongside training in Diabetes and Endocrinology with GIM. I will talk about the particular barriers and challenges commonly reported by clinical academics and how universities and funding bodies are working to provide tailored support to help the furious juggle of research, grants, papers, on-calls, clinics and, yes, a home life....

ea0029p96 | Adrenal cortex | ICEECE2012

Diagnostics of primary aldosteronism: is obligatory use of confirmatory tests justified?

Mysliwiec J. , Zukowski L. , Gorska M.

Introduction: Assessment of the RAAS has been recently granted a much greater role in the evaluation of patients with arterial hypertension (AH). There is no single test efficient in selection of patients for second-step etiological investigation.Methods: 198 consecutive patients- 119 women (60%) and 79 men (40%)- hospitalized in years 2009-2011 at the Clinical Department of Endocrinology UMB as to diagnose PA. In each patient PRA and PAC (basic and afte...

ea0015s66 | Obtaining funding for young endocrinologists | SFEBES2008

Obtaining funding for your research

Skerry Tim

The song ‘Money makes the world go round’ could have been written for biological scientists, because it is hard to conceive of a research project in endocrinology that could proceed without many thousands of pounds in funding. This means that a key skill for career scientists is the ability to write successful research grants. Despite government assurances of increased budgets for scientific research, the reality is that within the environment of responsive mode gran...

ea0040lb1 | Advances in molecular pathogenesis of thyroid cancer | ESEBEC2016

L1 – Biography

Pilar Santisteban is a Full Professor at the Biomedical Research Institute of the Spanish Council of Research, Madrid, Spain. Among other responsibilities, she has been a Vice President of the Spanish Endocrine Society and a member of the Executive Committee of the European Thyroid Association (ETA). Currently, she is the manager of the Spanish National Grants Program, the Spanish Member of the Joint Research Center o...