SRHSB President’s Festive Greetings
Congratulations to Ashwin Kumaria – successes from SRHSB/Integra Travelling Fellowship 2023
We are delighted to announce and share the many successes of Mr Ashwin Kumaria who received the SRHSB/Integra Travelling Fellowship in 2023 to undertake a project entitled “Observership in Paediatric Neurosurgery: A comparison of the management of hydrocephalus associated with paediatric brain tumours”, under the supervision of Dr (Prof) Sanjay Behari (Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology, India).
Carola McDonald has been awarded the Dr Richard Morgan Prize
We congratulate Carola McDonald (Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands) on being awarded the Dr Richard Morgan Prize, by Shine for her talk at the SRHSB Manchester Conference 2024 entitled: “Implementation of the Ready Steady Go transition program for youth with spina bifida: user-friendliness and role in transition from a patient perspective”.
SRHSB Manchester 2024 Conference Prizes
We are delighted to announce the following prizes that were awarded in respect of outstanding presentations at the SRHSB Manchester Conference 2024. We extend our warmest congratulations to them all.
New paper published
New paper on Accumulation of Cerebrospinal Fluid, Ventricular Enlargement, and Cerebral Folate Metabolic Errors Unify a Diverse Group of Neuropsychiatric Conditions Affecting Adult Neocortical Functions
Congratulations on grant success!
We are delighted to announce that a BBSRC project grant of >£1.3m has been awarded to a research team at the University of Manchester (Dr Reinmar Hager, Prof. Mike Harte, Dr Jo Glazier) and King’s College London (Dr Anthony Vernon); shown in picture below from left to right, respectively.
RIP: Dr Richard Morgan
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Dr Richard Morgan. Dr Richard Morgan was a truly dedicated and well respected adult physician who was a long-standing member of the SRHSB & SHINE. He established and led a very effective multi-disciplinary spina bifida clinic at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital in London, which became increasingly recognised as a national referral centre for adults with spina bifida. For many years this important one stop assessment clinic has been much appreciated by patients travelling from many parts of the country and I am sure Dr Morgan will be hugely missed by all his colleagues and spina bifida patients. We pass our deepest condolences to his family and friends.
CONGRATULATIONS TO DR MARIA GARCIA BONILLA!
We are delighted to announce that Maria Garcia Bonilla, Ph.D. has been appointed Assistant Professor on the tenure track in the Departments of Neurosurgery and Anatomy and Neurobiology at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond, Virginia, USA.
Prof Roger Bayston receives Pudenz Award
Professor Roger Bayston from Nottingham University was awarded the prestigious Pudenz Award for Excellence in in Cerebrospinal Fluid and Hydrocephalus Research. Many congratulations to him!
IJMS Special Issue – Call for papers on “Multiplicity of Cerebrospinal Fluid Functions in Health and Disease”
In recent years, interest has grown in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) as a physiological fluid supporting brain development, function and health. Attention has focused on the source of CSF, the choroid plexus epithelium, as the compoisition of CSF is unique and controlled. The role of CSF in brain development, normal function and health of the brain, is becoming clear, particularly in metabolic processes, supply of nutrients, metabolies and vitamins.