The Society was delighted to receive 62 entries of a very high standard for this year's competition. Congratulations to the winner, Marianne Nearey (Cambridge), who received a £1,000 prize. The winning essay was entitled 'Does my bum look big or is it my jeans?', and can be accessed at the link below. The Society was pleased to award four additional runner-up prizes of £250 to: Neil Singh (Cambridge) 'The role of mitochondrial dysfunction in the metabolic syndrome',
Meera Ladwa (ICL, London) 'New hope for an old disease: why the endocrine system is the next target in major depression', Mathew Rutherford (Glasgow) 'The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and a novel peptide: the future of cardio vascular endocrinology', Louise Hunter (Edinburgh) 'Fast and furious - aggression and the rapid non-genomic actions of stress hormones'. The following five applicants were highly commended: Emily Adams (Oxford) 'Undergraduate Endocrinology: The Big Issue',
Caroline Dugdale (Sheffield) 'Testosterone: a future cardiovascular treatment?',
Lucy Leeman (Plymouth) 'Polycystic ovary syndrome and the metformin controversy',
Faisal Rahman (Oxford) 'Oestrogens, a rapid responder for our heartaches?',
Michael Wilson (Glasgow) 'Controversy in thyroid disease - should this impact on the undergraduate medical curriculum?'
Winning essay