The Peter Carlton Jones Memorial Award 2010 - Up to £1000.00

It is proposed that an annual award of up to one thousand pounds (£) will be made to an individual who is engaged in either research or teaching or treatment or care, within the public or private sectors in the United Kingdom.

The award to be granted in response to the submission of a ‘research project’ (not a literature review) which provides an original contribution to the scientific or public understanding of the Niemann-Pick Diseases and / or their treatment or cure.

The applicant’s submission of a completed project should be in the form of an abstract, of one side of A4 paper (~ 600 words), which includes clear statements on the work undertaken, methodology, ‘findings’ and principal features in regard to the nature of the project, as referred to above.

The decision on the award will be determined by an Award Committee of the Niemann-Pick Disease Group (UK).  The Committee comprising; the Group’s Chairman, the Medical Advisor, the Trustee with a research remit and the Clinical Nurse Specialist and the Clinical Research Nurse for Niemann-Pick Diseases.

Applicants are invited to submit for the 2010 Award, with a view to the Award Committee short listing and possibly seeking further information and / or a project report, prior to a final decision being made.

Submissions to:    Toni Mathieson

                                Executive Director

                                Niemann-Pick Disease Group (UK)

                                11 Greenwood Close, The Pastures,

                                Fatfield, Washington, NE38 8LR

                                E-mail: niemann-pick@zetnet.co.uk

                                Tel: 0191 415 0693

Closing date for submissions: 28th February 2010

It is envisaged that the successful applicant will be invited to the Annual Family Conference of the Niemann-Pick Disease Group (UK), to be held in July 2010, to formally receive the award.

The award has been established in memory of Peter Carlton Jones, a former Trustee of the Group.

The Peter Carlton Jones Memorial Award 2009 - The Winners

After careful consideration of the submissions received, which were once again of a very high standard, the Peter Carlton Jones Memorial Award Committee agreed to jointly award the 2009 prize to Dr Barry Boland and Stephen Knight. 

Dr Barry Boland

Read Barry's submission

Stephen Knight

Read Stephen's submission

The Peter Carlton Jones Memorial Award 2008

The winner of the 2008 Peter Carlton Jones Memorial Award was Alexander Lewis. 

Read Alexander's submission

Picture  below shows Alexander receiving his award from NPDG (UK) Chairman, Jim Green

The Peter Carlton Jones Memorial Award 2007

In 2007, the Peter Carlton Jones Memorial Award Committee agreed to award the prize jointly to two deserving candidates:

Daniel Witter
Daniel is a third year D Phil student working at the laboratory of Dr Fran Platt at the Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford. He is originally from Pensacola, Florida, in the USA and graduated from University of West Florida in chemistry in 2004. He is currently living in Oxford with his wife whilst studying for a D Phil in biochemistry at Oxford University. He was chosen as joint winner of the PCJ Memorial Award this year for his work on comparison of NPC neuropathology compared with that found in Alzhiemer’s Disease. He hopes to continue his work in research studying neurodegenerative diseases.
Read Daniel’s submission

Jinzhi Zhang – Biomedical Student
Jinzhi is a 3rd year biochemistry undergraduate student at the University of Bath. She submitted an abstract for the PCJ Memorial Award based upon work carried out under the supervision of Dr Emyr Lloyd-Evans, whilst on placement at Dr. Fran Platt's laboratory at the University of Oxford. A major focus of her work has been discovering whether cholesterol is involved in early pathogenesis of Niemann-Pick type C1 disease and development of a new screening test utilising lysotracker green for all lysosomal storage diseases.
Read Jinzhi’s submission

The Peter Carlton Jones Memorial Award 2006

The winner of the 2006 Peter Carlton Jones Memorial Award was Emyr-Lloyd-Evans, who collected his Award at the 2006 NPDG (UK) Annual Family Conference from Peter’s widow, Lesley Carlton Jones.

Read Emyr's submission