Garrod Prize

This prize replaced the Non-Clinical Bursary, and is named after Sir Alfred Baring Garrod, who was responsible for recognising the difference between osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis and also for initiating the thread test for uric acid in the blood.
Past winners were:

2009 Dr E JURY, Centre for Rheumatology Research, University College London:‘The role of lipid rafts in lupus T cell pathology’

2008 Dr W KAFIENAH. University of Bristol, Bristol:“Can stem cells deliver for osteoarthritis patients?”

2007 None awarded

2006 None awarded

2005 Dr S KOLLNBERGER, MRC Human Immunology Unit, Oxford:‘The role of cell surface HLA-B27 heavy chain homodimer interactions with NK receptors in the pathogenesis of spondyloarthritis’

2004 None awarded.

2003 None awarded.

2002 Miss L BOYLE, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge:'Breaking the rules: the unconventional recognition of HLA-B27 by CD4+ T lymphocytes as an insight into the pathogenesis of the spondylarthropathies’

2001 Dr F PONCHEL, St James’ Hospital, Leeds:‘Thymic Activity and T-Cell Differentiation Defects in Rheumatoid Arthritis’

2000 Dr R ALLEN, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford:‘A New Perspective on the Role of HLA B27 in Spondyloarthropathy’