GRANT Network

🚨Recent publication alert! 🚨 Two of our committee members are authors of this systematic review on the faecal microbiome in colorectal neoplasia, recently published in AP&T @wileyinresearch onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ap… Congratulations Sarah and Ellie!

🎖 Well done to Dr Eleanor Hackney, winner of The Alistair McIntyre Prize for Improving #Gastroenterology Training! A standout commitment to better training #BSGLIVE25 @BSGtrainees

Introducing this year’s prize winners… 🥈Runner up: Dr Agatha Chu for her project on blood test monitoring in upadacitinib 🥇First prize: Dr Laura Checkett with her work on standardising HCC ultrasound surveillance and integration of US LI-RADS into clinical practice

This year’s GRANT symposium was a great success! We had brilliant talks from Prof John Leeds @NEndoscopy and Dr Keith Pohl @KeithPohl7, followed by six fantastic presentations by trainees in our region who have completed excellent projects!

Thank you Prof Leeds for a brilliant talk and for your support of GRANT!

🏆#BSGLive2025 - Award For Dr Eleanor Hackney🏆 Congrats to #ColoCohort researcher Ellie for winning the Alistair McIntyre Prize for "EmPath" - a project she co-created to empower endoscopy trainees in recognising & managing Upper GI pathology via targeted study days. @RI_STSFT

Another brilliant @NorthernETA EmPath pathology day held @NorthumbriaDASH today. Fantastic to be part of this multidisciplinary programme centred around upper GI pathology recognition and management

Send us an abstract for this year’s symposium and this could be you!

Dr Alexandra Hickey won our symposium prize last year and went on to expand her project with GRANT’s help. This week her work has been published as a letter in Frontline Gastro! Well done Alexandra! #letter-to-the-editor-in-response-to-%E2%80%98decompensated-cirrhosis-an-update-of-the-bsg-basl-admission-care-bundle%E2%80%99" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">fg.bmj.com/content/early/…

Call for abstracts! We are looking for NE trainees/allied professionals who have completed research or audits in gastro recently! Get in touch for the opportunity to present them in a friendly, supportive environment and the potential to role your project out across the region!

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By three months your baby should be: 1) Lifting their head during tummy time 2) Developing specific research interests Support them by attending events like these! @colospeedstudy @bowelcanceruk @ellie_r_hackney @dr_sarahmanning #bowelcancerawarenessweek

Another fantastic @NorthernETA EmPath day yesterday - EMpowering endoscopy trainees in PATHology recognition and management held at North Tees University Hospital @frasercbrown

jetsapp.thejag.org.uk/courses/JAG_CR… TCT Course at University Hospital Hartlepool 5-6 February. Places still available. Come and learn how to teach colleagues to do Colonoscopy.

🚨UK Gastro/Hep trainee research networks 🚨  You can now submit your research to @FrontGastro_BMJ and apply to the @BritSocGastro to have the open access fees waived 🙌 Thanks to all who helped facilitate this! @BSGTrainees @ResearchBsg @PhilSmithIsBack @DebbieShawcros1

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NE Gastro SpR and GRANT member, Dr Rebecca Bragg, presented our regional project ‘A Multicentre Evaluation of FIT Results in Colorectal Cancer’ at UEGW in Vienna this week. Well done Bex! #UEGWeek

This is a useful trainees meeting to attend - for all ST4-5 GI trainees to help you decide your career path. @grantnetworkorg @NREGresearch 👇👇

@NEndoscopy Thanks Dr Leeds! Yes definitely, we will be in touch! 😄

@grantnetworkorg I was on holiday but is there any way to be involved in this? I have projects galore that might interest a regional trainee(s)?

Congratulations to our symposium prize winners! 🥇Dr Emily Dobb: Variceal screening audit 🥈Dr Alexandra Hickey & Dr Fatima Abdelsalam: Improving awareness of the decompensated cirrhosis discharge bundle QIP Two great projects that we would love to roll out through GRANT!

@anjan_dhar6 Thanks again for your support of the event and GRANT generally! Your talk was very helpful and informative 😃

@grantnetworkorg A brilliant Gastroenterology trainees symposium to encourage research participation. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. Congratulations to the winners. Any NE GI trainees interested in luminal research please contact me. @NREGresearch