IPEM Prizes & Awards

Catarina Veiga

Hear from Catarina Veiga, Associate Professor at the Centre for Medical Image Computing, UCL, recipient of the IPEM Academic Early Career Award in 2020:

"I was honoured to receive in 2020 the IPEM Academic Early Career Award in recognition of my scientific contributions to the field of radiotherapy, particularly my PhD research on the use of cone-beam CT and image registration for adaptive lung proton beam therapy.

This award had great impact in my career, boosting my confidence as I was taking my first steps as an independent researcher and enhancing the visibility of my research in the scientific community. It was a key milestone in my journey to establish my research team at University College London, the Paediatric Radiotherapy and Imaging (PRIma) group.

In addition to this recognition, IPEM has provided me with many opportunities for professional development over the years, such as training events like conferences and webinars, financial support for conference attendance as well as career guidance."

Carmel Moran

Hear from Carmel Moran, Professor of Translational Ultrasound at the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Cardiovascular Science, recipient of the Spiers' Award in 2023:

"The Spiers’ Prize was awarded to the ‘Imaging Inside Out’ outreach team I lead, which is composed of an international group of postdoctoral researchers and PhD students from both the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University. Many of the team were actively involved in developing and delivering the activity to high school pupils. For older pupils we borrowed the IPEM foetal ultrasound phantom, which provided the opportunity to ultrasonically scan a realistically sized model of a foetus. It means a great deal to our outreach team to have won this Spiers’ prize and has enthused us to link up with the Institute of Physics Scotland Committee and their ‘Girls into Physics and Engineering’ events across Scotland."

Elizabeth Davies

Hear from Elizabeth Davies, Head of Radiation Protection at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust recipient of the Roy Ellis Award in 2022:

"As part of the Higher Specialist Scientist Training (HSST) scheme I undertook a research project into how the NHS can better inform patients of the risks associated with x-rays, CT and Nuclear Medicine. During the course of this project I led a team to develop a website www.informed-scan.com which aimed to inform patients of radiation risks. I wanted to ensure that duplication of work was prevented in Trusts where resources to create information for patients were scarce. 

In 2022 I was awarded the IPEM Roy Ellis Patient Benefit award for this work. The subsequent publicity helped to spread the news of the website and, I hope, ensure that people are able to use the resource more widely. My Trust also picked up on the publicity and used it internally and externally to publicise the work that is done in the Trust. It has been a real boost to the morale of the team that worked on the website and is really appreciated."