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Introduction
The British Cardiovascular Society (BCS)/British Heart Foundation (BHF)/British Atherosclerosis Society (BAS)/British Society for Cardiovascular Research (BSCR) Young Investigator Award (YIA) was established in 2001. The competition is open to both clinicians (who are not consultants) and basic scientists, who are no more than 5 years post-PhD. This year, five finalists were selected from 49 applicants. The finalists presented their work and answered questions from a panel of independent judges at the BCS Annual Conference 2024 in Manchester on 4 June 2024. This year’s finalists conducted research on a variety of topics within the domains of coronary disease and cardiomyopathy, with entries highlighting the diverse experimental methods that are used in cardiovascular research. Their profiles and presentation summaries are presented below.
Winner: Dr Aish Sinha
Dr Aish Sinha is a cardiology registrar in the South London Deanery (figure 1). He graduated from King’s College London with first-class honours in his intercalated BSc in 2011 (cardiovascular physiology) and with MBBS with distinction in 2013. He was awarded the prestigious King’s College London Teacher of the Year award in 2016 and attained his MRCP in 2017. He has recently been awarded a PhD in cardiology at King’s College London, under the supervision of Professor Divaka Perera. Dr Sinha is a recipient of the American Heart Association Samuel A Levine Early Career Clinical Investigator Award (2023), British Cardiovascular Intervention Society (BCIS) YIA (2024) and was a finalist at the European Society of Cardiology YIA competition (2023). Dr Sinha has recently been awarded a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Academic Clinical Lectureship post at King’s College London.
Dr Aish Sinha.
Dr Sinha presented a series of studies focussing on key unmet needs in the diagnosis and management of patients with angina and non-obstructive coronary arteries (ANOCA). In his first study, Dr Sinha assessed the diagnostic utility …
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Contributors Each author submitted their profile and summary of presentation. The final author wrote the introduction and edited the profiles and summaries before sending back to the original authors to ensure they were in agreement with the submitted content.
Funding AS was funded by a clinical research training fellowship from the Medical Research Council (MR/T029390/1). NA was funded by the British Heart Foundation; King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia via The Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau (SACB); Sansour Fund, Imperial Healthcare Charity; and the Safwan Sobhan Fund at Imperial College London. KAM was supported by the British Heart Foundation (FS/IPBSRF/22/27059), the British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence at Imperial College London (RE/18/4/34215) and the National Institute for Health and Care Research Imperial College Biomedical Research Centre. AR was supported by an Accelerator Award from the British Heart Foundation (AA/18/2/34218) and the Metchley Park Medical Society Research Consumables Grant (C111 10005 60492). DS was supported by the NHLI Studentship in Heart Failure.
Competing interests None declared.
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