Community Support for Emerging Research Leaders
Brian Kim, Dr Karen Bracken, Amanda Purcell and Dr Vicky Duong
Philanthropic support building our research expertise A collection of researchers developed their skills and established crucial new collaborations following generous funding through the Skipper Charitable Trust. Five researchers received a 2024 Beryl and Jack Jacobs Travel Award, enabling them to travel for conferences and work with experts across the globe. Academic Director Professor James Elliott was thrilled to announce the successful recipients, saying each researcher demonstrated how their travel opportunity would broaden their research expertise and lead to exciting new progress.
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Brian Kim from the Neuromuscular Imaging Research Laboratory Brian visited the United States to work with colleagues at the Northwestern University in Chicago. Brian is establishing machine learning methods to automatically quantify the soft tissues of the shoulder in patients needing surgical repairs.
Dr Karen Bracken from the Osteoarthritis Clinical Research Group Karen travelled to the University of Bristol to work with the team at the renowned Bristol Trials Centre. There she gained a better understanding of recent advances in clinical trials, directly supporting her role as a clinical trials program lead. Karen also visited the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at University College London.
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