{"id":407,"date":"2023-06-15T16:29:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T15:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/mdr\/?p=407"},"modified":"2023-06-15T16:31:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T15:31:30","slug":"2023-bsg-young-gastroenterologist-of-the-year-clinical-and-translational-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/mdr\/2023\/06\/15\/2023-bsg-young-gastroenterologist-of-the-year-clinical-and-translational-science\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 BSG Young Gastroenterologist of the Year \u2013 Clinical and Translational Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"187\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-408 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/mdr\/files\/2023\/06\/james-personal-photo_1655926557903_x1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/>Congratulations to MDR&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/j.alexander\">Dr James Alexander<\/a> for winning the 2023 British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) Young Gastroenterologist of the Year \u2013 Clinical and Translational Science.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The award was presented to Dr Alexander at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsg.org.uk\/events\/bsg-live-2023\/\">BSG LIVE&#8217;23<\/a> annual meeting in Liverpool on 19th \u2013 22nd June 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the award, Dr Alexander said: &#8220;I feel very honoured to have won this award. It recognises my research over the last few years in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and colorectal cancer. I was fortunate to play a central role in important multicentre studies of immunity following COVID-19 vaccination in IBD, which helped to shape public health policy and protect our immunosuppressed patients.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to thank my supervisors and colleagues at Imperial for their support and all the fantastic research teams and patients from across the UK who contributed to this work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The BSG Young Gastroenterologist of the Year \u2013 Clinical &amp; Translational Science is designed to identify and promote talented trainee clinical scientists nationally in order to promote research and science in gastroenterology for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to MDR&#8217;s Dr James Alexander for winning the 2023 British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) Young Gastroenterologist of the Year \u2013 Clinical and Translational Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1343,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/mdr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/mdr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/mdr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/mdr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/mdr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/mdr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/mdr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/mdr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/mdr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/mdr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}