BHIVA Research Awards (previous winners)
2024 winners
In 2024, the BHIVA Research Awards received 11 high quality applications from both large and small centres, requesting a total of £156,678.43. The BHIVA Research Awards Judging Panel is proud to announce the following four successful applicants being awarded a total of £53,207:
- ‘Preclinical validation of a Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) point-of-care test for the detection of HIV RNA’, Dr Jasmini Alagaratnam, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London
- ‘The POWER Study: Projecting the voices of midlife Women in East Sussex with a late diagnosis of HIV’, Dr Kiersten Simmons, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust and Brighton and Sussex Medical School
- ‘Gut microbiome diversity and its correlation to treatment response in people living with HIV receiving immunotherapy for combined anti-retroviral therapy (cART) refractory Kaposi Sarcoma (KS): insights from the phase Ib StarKap trial’, Dr Claudia Fulgenzi, Imperial College London/ Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
- ‘Utility and acceptability of self-collected capillary blood using Tasso® device for HIV viral load testing’, Dr Maithili Varadarajan, Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London
The BHIVA Research Awards 2024 were part-funded by Gilead Sciences. BHIVA is also grateful for donations from BHIVA members.
2023 winners
In 2023, the BHIVA Research Awards received nine high quality applications from both large and small centres, requesting a total of £132,110.16. The BHIVA Research Awards Judging Panel is proud to announce the following six successful applicants being awarded a total of £70,158.16:
- ‘Pulmonary MRI assessment in HIV with obstructive lung disease: PuMAH OLD’, Dr Paul Collini, University of Sheffield
- ‘The impact of ectopic fat deposition on cardiac risk assessment in patients living with HIV. An MR spectroscopy cross-sectional analysis with HIV-negative individuals’, Dr Thomas Heseltine, Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust
- ‘The effect of HIV-1 on osteoclast differentiation and activity ex vivo among peripubertal children and adolescents’, Dr Lisha Jeena, University of Oxford
- ‘Who is best placed to lead the care of older people living with HIV? A qualitative study’, Dr Howell Jones, University College London
- ‘Antibiotic STI prophylaxis and antimicrobial resistance among men-who-have-sex-with-men living with HIV’, Dr Manik Kohli, University College London
- ‘The role of ddhC in HIV diagnostics’, Dr Ravi Mehta, Imperial College London
BHIVA is grateful for donations from BHIVA members.
2022 winners
In 2022, the BHIVA Research Awards received nine high quality applications from both large and small centres, requesting a total of £166,198.96. The BHIVA Research Awards Judging Panel is proud to announce the following three successful applicants being awarded a total of £33,469.36:
- Pilot study of prevalence and activity of anti-interferon auto-antibodies in people living with HIV, Dr Douglas Fink, University College London
- Mechanism for a novel determinant of viral load in individuals of African origin living with HIV, Dr Harriet Groom, University of Cambridge
- The Investigation of Interactions between the Microbiome and Inflammatory Phenotypes and their Relationship to Clinical Outcomes in People with HIV (PWH), Dr Rachel MacCann, University College London
The BHIVA Research Awards 2022 were part-funded by Gilead Sciences. BHIVA is also grateful for donations from BHIVA members.
2021 winners
In 2021, the BHIVA Research Awards received 10 high quality applications from both large and small centres, requesting a total of £139,194.46. The BHIVA Research Awards Judging Panel is proud to announce the following six successful applicants being awarded a total of £65,910.60:
- Tackling Tobacco Addiction in HIV (TTAH) Study, Dr Emily Clarke, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- HIV-1 Viral Load Small Volume Blood Testing Validity and Acceptability, Dr Stuart Flanagan, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Acceptability and feasibility of digital assessment of falls risk, frailty and mobility impairment using wearable sensors in people with HIV as part of HIV care, Dr Claire Norcross, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
- To understand the knowledge of health care providers and the barriers relating to the diagnosis and treatment of low bone mineral density (BMD) amongst women living with HIV, Dr Hajra Okhai, University College London
- Prevalence of Epstein Barr virus and cytomegalovirus and associated immune-activation and inflammation in adolescents and young adults with perinatally-acquired HIV, Dr Helen Payne, Imperial College London
- Waist circumference cut-offs for metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance in women and men of African ancestry with HIV, Dr Laura Ribeiro Cechin, Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London
Don Jeffries Research Award 2021
In 2012, as a memorial to the late Professor Donald Jeffries CBE, the BHIVA Education and Scientific Subcommittee instituted an award for the top-scoring project in the BHIVA Research Awards applications. This award has been set up in perpetuity, to honour Professor Jeffries’ unerring support and dedication to the British HIV Association.
The 2021 Don Jeffries Research Award was presented to Dr Claire Norcross for submitting the highest scoring application in the BHIVA Research Awards 2021.
The BHIVA Research Awards 2021 were part-funded by Gilead Sciences. BHIVA is also grateful for donations from BHIVA members.
2020 winners
In 2020, the BHIVA Research Awards received 14 high quality applications from both large and small centres, requesting a total of £201,557.58. The BHIVA Research Awards Judging Panel is proud to announce the following five successful applicants being awarded a total of £68,325.32:
- ‘Discontinuation of tenofovir in HIV-1/HBV coinfected patients: a feasibility study’, Dr Kosh Agarwal, King’s College Hospital, London and Dr Daniel Bradshaw, UK Health Security Agency
- ‘Evaluation of the psychometric properties of the short form HIV Disability Questionnaire among women living with HIV in the United Kingdom: A cross-sectional self-report measurement study’, Mr Darren Brown, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London
- ‘POWER: ParticipatiOn of WomEn in HIV Research’, Dr Lisa Hamzah, St George’s, London
- ‘The mechanisms of gut immune dysfunction in HIV-1 and HIV-2 infection and their implications for HIV-1 persistence’, Dr John Thornhill, Barts Health, London and QMUL
- ‘Analysis of Broadly Neutralising Antibody Resistance in Adolescents and Young People living with HIV’, Dr Penny Zacharopoulou, University of Oxford
Don Jeffries Research Award 2020
The 2020 Don Jeffries Research Award was presented to Dr John Thornhill at the BHIVA Autumn Virtual Conference 2020 on Tuesday 24 November 2020, for submitting the highest scoring application in the BHIVA Research Awards 2020.
The BHIVA Research Awards 2020 were part-funded by Gilead Sciences. BHIVA is also grateful for donations from BHIVA members.