We are pleased to announce that the Isherwood Pump Priming Grant, up to £10,000 to support early career research in neuroradiology, is open for submissions!
For more details and to apply, please visit the Isherwood Grant page.
Thank you everyone for coming to Manchester for an excellent Annual Scientific Meeting! We hope you enjoyed the event, and our thanks go to a great organising team in Manchester and event organiser Louise Richards.
We were pleased to present the following prizes at the conference:
Presentation Prizes
Platform Presentation – 1st Place: Alina Sovetkina
Platform Presentation – 2nd Place: Neha Kallam
Poster Prize: Weixuan Ding
Wilkinson Essay Prize
1st prize: Abhishek Saha, 5th year medical student, Oxford
2nd prize: Rohan Singh, 2nd year medical student, Cambridge
You can read their essays on the Prof Iain Wilkinson Essay Prize page here.
We look forward to seeing everyone in London next year!
The Academic Subcommittee is continuing its partnership with BIC-ISMRM to promote their MR Education series. The aim of the partnership is to:
(i) foster academic collaboration between BSNR members who have a research interest and clinical physicists at other centres;
(ii) share clinical expertise and knowledge within neuroimaging;
(ii) learn about the latest MR techniques being developed in UK.
Please find attached the schedule for the Autumn term, where Dr Samantha Mills will be speaking on 14th November 2025 on the topic of “Multiple Sclerosis”. Previous speakers have included Dr Kish Mankad, Dr David Doig and Dr Tilak Das and if you are interested in giving a clinical lecture to a largely clinical physicist audience please contact Dr Harpreet Hyare: harpreet.hyare@nhs.net
BSNR members can sign up on the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=BCISMRM
See the full talk schedule here: MRI_teaching_schedule_AUTUMN_2025
We are delighted to invite submissions from undergraduate* medical students in UK Medical Schools for the 2025 Prof Iain Wilkinson Essay Prize. The prize is awarded in honour of Prof Iain Wilkinson, Professor of Magnetic Resonance Physics at the
University of Sheffield who died in 2020. Prof Wilkinson was a leading figure in UK clinical brain imaging research and a long-standing friend and associate member of the British Society of Neuroradiologists.
The title for the essay is: Neuroradiology in a world with changing climate: How can we make our specialty more sustainable?
The winner will receive a prize of £250 and the runner-up will receive £150. The winning essay will be published on the British Society of Neuroradiologists website.
To find out more and enter, go to: https://bsnr.org.uk/academic/undergrad/
Applications are invited for a full time Clinical Research Fellow in Neuroradiology: 50% research at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and 50% clinical in The Lysholm Department of Neuroradiology at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UCLH NHS Foundation Trust for a 12 month period.
UCLH are looking for a talented and motivated individual to join our friendly multidisciplinary team. The applicant will gain research experience in application of mathematical models to improve diagnosis of brain tumours at UCL Institute of Neurology and will support the diagnostic neuroradiology workload in one of London’s premiere Teaching Hospital Trusts. This post would suit a post-FRCR or post-CCT radiologist, with some prior research experience, who wishes to gain a further dedicated period of experience in diagnostic neuroradiology at a recognised Neuroscience Centre.
Find out more here: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9309-25-0552
Closing date: 3rd July
More details available here: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9317-25-0423
Applications close 6th April.
After a pilot last year, the Academic Subcommittee has launched a new partnership with BIC-ISMRM to promote their MR Education series. The aim of the partnership is to:
(i) foster academic collaboration between BSNR members who have a research interest and clinical physicists at other centres;
(ii) share clinical expertise and knowledge within neuroimaging;
(ii) learn about the latest MR techniques being developed in UK.
BSNR Members can register here: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=BCISMRM
See the full timetable here: MRI_teaching_schedule_winter_2025_TalkSchedule (1).
This term features a talk by Dr Kish Mankad entitled “Paediatric Neuroimaging: The Acutely Encephalopathic Child” on the 28th March.
Details available at NHS Jobs: Job Advert
Closing date 31/12/24.
Thank you to everyone who joined us at BSNR 2024 in Bristol – it was a fantastic trainee day and conference organised by an enthusiastic team from Bristol led by Dr Melissa Werndle and event organiser Louise Richards. There were numerous highlights in a packed and innovative programme, including the Brian Kendall lecture delivered by Professor Emmanuel Houdart from Paris, the James Bull lecture delivered by Professor Nick Fox from London, and a fascinating array of excellent guest speakers on topics from the rise of medical misinformation (Dr David Grimes) to equity in genomics (Professor Kathreena Kurian), as well as a charming after dinner talk from Dr Sian Williams. The programme is available to download here. Our thanks to Mel, Louise and all of the Bristol organising team.
We are pleased to announce the following prizes which were awarded at the conference:
Best Oral Presentation Award – Dr James Ruffle, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London
VASARI-auto: performant, equitable, efficient, economical, and survival-predictive featurization of glioma MRI
Best Poster Award – Dr Saad Moughal, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Manchester
Cerebellar neonatal subpial haemorrhage – under recognised type
In addition, the following awards were made at the conference dinner:
BSNR Trainer of the Year – awarded jointly to Dr Tilak Das, Dr Daniel Scoffings, and Dr Josh Scott
President’s Medal – Dr Tilak Das and Dr Rob Dineen
The Academic Subcommittee also awarded the 2024 Undergraduate Essay Prize – you can find out more about the prize and read the winning essays here.
Winner – Mr Aparajith Sathish Kumar – University of Dundee, 3rd year
Runner Up – Miss Elizabeth Zachariah – University of Cambridge, 4th year
Our enormous congratulations to all those awarded!
We look forward to welcoming you to Manchester in 2025.
After a pilot earlier this year, the Academic Subcommittee is launching a new partnership with BIC-ISMRM to promote their MR Education series. The aim of the partnership is to:
(i) foster academic collaboration between BSNR members who have a research interest and clinical physicists at other centres;
(ii) share clinical expertise and knowledge within neuroimaging;
(ii) learn about the latest MR techniques being developed in UK.
BSNR Members can register here: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=BCISMRM
See the full timetable here: MRI_teaching_schedule_Autumn_2024_TalkSchedule.