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SRHSB Annual Meeting 2022

Save the Date: 29th September – 1st October 2022, Doha (Qatar)

SRHSB 66th Annual Meeting will be held from 29th September to 1st October 2022 in Doha, Qatar. The Society’s 66th Annual Scientific Meeting is our forum for international networking and discussion of hydrocephalus and spina bifida.

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SRHSB Annual Meeting November 2021

Following the excellent webinar where all the papers were fascinating and of a very high standard, we are delighted to announce the Prizewinners

  • Best basic science: Dr Myles Keener
  • Best clinical science: Dr Eric Schmidt
  • President’s Prize: Dr Maria Garcia-Bonilla

The Waite Hydrocephalus Research Student Bursary 2021

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

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Winter-Spring Newsletter 2021

The Winter-Spring Newsletter 2021 is now availble!

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Encourage international collaboration, gain a wider knowledge of Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida and get involved as a new or experienced scientist by becoming a member!

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Donate to our new Bursary Fund

At the Annual General Meeting in Tenerife 2019 it was agreed that a new Fund should be set up to encourage new scientific investigators and trainee clinical and nursing staff to apply for bursary support to attend future conferences. Our first task is to build up a Specific Fund for this purpose to be known as the “SRHSB Bursary Fund”. If you are currently an Honorary Member, Senior Member, Ordinary member or supporter, please consider supporting the society in this way. Any donation, large or small will be most welcome. You can donate NOW by clicking the button below.

When making a donation to the bursary fund, please write ‘bursary fund’ under ‘add a note’.

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Become a member

Encourage international collaboration, gain a wider knowledge of Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida and get involved as a new or experienced scientist by becoming a member!

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Annual Conference

The Society’s Annual Scientific Meeting is our forum for international networking and discussion of
hydrocephalus and spina bifida. 

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The Norman Guthkelch Award

The Norman Guthkelch Award is an award of £1500 GBP to be received by a student in training or an early career investigator who is conducting research in the area of hydrocephalus and neural tube defects including spina bifida. 

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The Casey Holter Lectureship

The Casey Holter Lectureship is offered to a person of international eminence in a field of relevance to hydrocephalus or spina bifida to deliver a special lecture.

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Become a sponsor

The Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida (SRHSB) was founded in 1956 by a group of physicians and surgeons interested in developing treatments for the conditions. You can support us by making a donation. 

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