Michael Mason Prize

Past prize winners

 2011 Dr J Ioannou
University College London 
'Pathogenic antiphospholipid antibodies, stressed out antigens and the deployment of decoys' 
 2010 Dr C Murphy
Imperial College, London
'Hypoxia, a force for good in cartilage - implications for joint repair' 
 2009 Dr K Raza
The University of Birmingham, Birmingham
‘Early rheumatoid arthritis: the window narrows’
 2008 Dr A Barton
University of Manchester, Manchester 
‘Genetics of rheumatoid arthritis – where are we up to and how does this impact clinically?’
 2007 None awarded
 2006 None awarded
 2005 Dr I Bruce
University of Manchester, Manchester 
‘Not only but also: factors that contribute to accelerated atherosclerosis and premature coronary heart disease (CHD) in systemic lupus erythematosus’
 2004 Dr A Rahman
Centre for Rheumatology, University College London
‘Autoantibodies, lupus and the science of sabotage’ 
 2003 Dr C Buckley
MRC Centre for Immune Regulation, Birmingham 
‘Why do leucocytes accumulate within chronically inflamed joints?’ 
 2002 Dr A Cope
Kennedy Institute for Rheumatology, London 
‘Exploring the reciprocal relationship between immunity and inflammation in chronic inflammatory arthritis’ 
 2001 Dr I McInnes
University of Glasgow
‘Novel cytokines in rheumatoid arthritis synovitis: do cytokine networks offer therapeutic opportunities?’ 
 2000 Dr P Bowness
Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford
‘HLA B27 in health and disease: a double-edged sword?’ 
 1999 Dr J Isaacs
University of Leeds
‘From bench to bedside’ 
 1998 Dr R Moots
Liverpool University
‘A fistful of T cells’ 
 1997 Dr S Ralston
University of Aberdeen
‘Nitric acid and bone: what a gas!’ 
 1996 Dr C Pitzalis
Guy’s Hospital
‘Role of adhesion mechanisms in the pathogenisis of chronic synovitis’ 
 1995 Dr K A Davies
Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London
‘Complement, immune complexes and systemic lupus erythematosus’
 1994 Dr C G Mackworth-Young
Charing Cross Hospital, London
‘Antiphospholipid antibodies and disease’
 1993 Dr D P M Symmons
ARC Epidemiology Research Unit, Manchester
‘From alpha to omega – some epidemiological insights into the rheumatoid arthritis story’ 
 1992 Dr B P Wordsworth
Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
‘Some applications of the new genetics to the investigation of the rheumatic diseases’ 
 1991 Dr M Gowen
Bath Institute for Rheumatic Diseases & University of Bath
‘The control of bone cell development and function’ 
 1990 Dr J S H Gaston
Department of Rheumatology, University of Birmingham
‘T cell recognition of bacterial antigens in inflammatory arthritis’ 
 1989 Dr D Haskard
Guy’s Hospital, London
‘The role of endothelium and cytokines in promoting lymphocyte traffic into inflammatory tissues’ 
 1988 Dr K Morgan
University of Manchester Medical School, Manchester
‘Anti-collagen antibodies and inflammatory arthritis’ 
 1987 Dr A Keat
Department of Rheumatology, Westminster Hospital, London
‘Bacteria in aseptic arthritis’ 
 1986 Dr D L Scott
St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London
‘Rheumatoid joint damage and connective tissue protein’