The Executive Committee of the SRHSB is delighted to announce the winners of the inaugural competition for the Waite Hydrocephalus Research Student Bursaries that have been so generously funded by Richard and Jennifer Waite.

• Charlotte Buttercase (Manchester UK) – Investigating progression of cerebral folate status in living patients suffering from Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
• Mridusmita Dutta (Assam, India) – Ages and Stages Questionnaires: feasibility of online survey for post-shunt hydrocephalus follow-up.
• Myles Rexford Keener (Cincinnati USA) – Investigating the Effects of Adeno-Associated Virus-Mediated Genetic Delivery of the L1cam Intracellular Domain in L1cam-deficient Rats with Hydrocephalus.
• Eleanor Mackellar (Edinburgh and Manchester UK) – Cerebral folate metabolism in normal pressure hydrocephalus.

We wish them well with their projects and look forward to their presentations to the Annual Meeting in due course.

SRHSB Executive Committee

The Winter-Spring Newsletter 2021 is now availble!

SRHSB submits Response to UK Mandatory Fortification Consultation.

SRHSB welcome fortification of ALL flour products with B9 (folic Acid) as a public health measure in the UK to reduces NTD’s, support continued supplementation and encourage healthy diet for all women of child rearing age. For SRHSB Executive Committee’s detailed consultation responses, please click on the following links:
Andy Wynd’s response and Dr Jaleel Miyan’s response.

Find out more about the ‘Folic fortification and preconception care: Why? How much? When?’ event that will take place on 25th February 2020 at the Royal Society of Medicine.