Originally launched in 2006, the BHIVA Research Award is open, through competitive application, to all BHIVA members for research projects that impact on the improvement of clinical care and management of people living with HIV in the UK. Up to £30,000 per annum is available, to be distributed amongst the successful applicants according to the quality of the submitted proposals, with a maximum of £10,000 award per application. The awards panel is chaired by an independent chair and the call for applications is usually announced in June and successful applicants notified in October.
Applications for grants or funding for research or other projects made directly to the Association are reviewed by the BHIVA Executive Committee at its meetings and considered based on merit and their relevance to the objectives of BHIVA.
BHIVA Research Award 2010 - Online applications now closed.
2009 winners
‘Characterisation of Neurocognitive Function in Perinatally Acquired HIV Positive Young People’, Dr Jane Ashby, St Mary’s Hospital, London
‘The effects of early antiretroviral intervention in Primary HIV infection (PHI) on markers of bacterial translocation across the gut’, Dr Elizabeth Hamlyn, Imperial College London
‘Prevalence of, and factors associated with significant liver disease in HIV-infected patients exposed to didanosine and development of a screening strategy using transient elastography to identify sub-clinical disease’, Dr Sarah Logan, Royal Free Hospital, London
‘Microbial translocation, immune activation and accelerated progression of liver fibrosis in HIV/hepatitis C co-infection’, Dr Emma Page, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
‘HIV Testing in Non-traditional Settings – The HINTS Study’, Dr Michael Rayment, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
‘The Clinical Utility of Pulse Wave Velocity as a Measure of Arterial Stiffness in HIV-infected individuals’, Dr Andrew Scourfield, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
2008 winners
‘The impact of chemotherapy with cART on cellular and viral resistance in HIV-infected patients with cancer’, Dr Marta Boffito, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
‘Emerging resistance in patients who discontinue a suppressive NNRTI-containing regimen: detecting low frequency NNRTI resistant mutants by ultra-sensitive real-time PCR and determining their impact on subsequent virological suppression’, Dr Ana Garcia‑Diaz, Royal Free Hospital, London
‘A cross-sectional analysis of serological markers of cardiovascular risk in HAART-naïve HIV-infected individuals’, Dr Laura Waters, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
‘An investigation into the prevalence of oral conditions in paediatric HIV’, Dr Steven Welch, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital
2007 winners
"Evaluating the use of peripheral DEXA scans in the detection of osteoporosis in a population of HIV-infected men", Dr Yvonne Gilleece, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust. PUBLISHED Evaluation of peripheral dual energy X-ray absorptiometry to detect osteoporosis in an HIV-seropositive men population. HIV Medicine,10 (Suppl 1) 1-10)
"A study of HIV and anti-retroviral therapy-related renal tubular toxicity using urinary proteomics and metabonomics", Dr Andrew Hall, University College London
"Study to assess the frequency of persistence of Hepatitis C virus in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of patients with previous HIV / Hepatitis C co-infection", Dr Emma Low, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London PUBLISHED The frequency of hepatitis C virus (HCV) persistence in peripheral blood mononueclear cells (PBMCs) of patients with previous HIV/hepatitis C co-infection. HIV Medicine, 10 (suppl 1) 11-56)
"Hepatitis C viral loads in seminal plasma during acute hepatitis C", Dr Joanna Turner, Mortimer Market Centre, London PUBLISHED Hepatitis C viral load in semen of HIV-positive men during acute and chronic hepatitis C infection. HIV Medicine, 11 (Supp 1) 1-19)
2006 winners
"The role of gut mucosa in protection from HIV", Dr Julie Fox, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London PUBLISHED The role of the gut mucosa in protection from HIV-1 in highly exposed persistently seronegative individual (HEPS). HIV Medicine, 10 (suppl 1) 1-10)
"The problems that patients bring to HIV clinical services in East London – what are they and how can they best be managed?", Dr Natalie Friend-du Preez, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London. PUBLISHED 'I don't have fear go die, but I have fear don't have money'. When the health needs of HIV patients are overshadowed by their social needs. HIV Medicine, 9 (Suppl 1) 10-50)