The David Cooper prize for the paper of best scientific content was awarded to Stephen Clark, Registrar at the Freeman Hospital for his paper 'Pharmacological & physical modulation of reperfusion injury after lung transplantation'.
The Ronald Edwards Medal and the Sorin prize of £5,000 was awarded to Stephen Rooney, Senior Registrar in Birmingham, for the research fund of his choice for his presentation 'Functional assessment of lung preservation does not detect endothelial injury'. Stephen has nominated the Lung Preservation Research Fund at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham as the recipient of the prize money.
The St.Jude Scholarship for £5,000 has been awarded to Andrew Owens of the Freeman Hospital, who will be spending twelve months in the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, Australia.
