THE 2025 UNDERGRADUATE PRIZE IS OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS.
Background
The ABN has a major commitment to all aspects of education and training of current and future neurologists.
The annual undergraduate prize is open to all current United Kingdom medical students, to encourage undergraduates to develop an interest in neurology. There are three categories of entry, each with a £200 prize.
- Clinical case: A clinical case of relevant to neurology with appropriate discussion
- Basic or clinical research
- Audit or health care improvement program
Applications
We are keen to encourage as wide as possible range of projects including special studies modules and electives abroad.
The written account must be for work undertaken since entering medical school and not as part
of any previous degree project such as a graduate entry student who may have participated in prior neuroscience research.
The written account should:
- Include a short additional summary of the work (maximum 250 words)
- Have a maximum length of 1000 words (excluding above summary)
- Contain a maximum of 3 figures, tables or graphs
- Contain a maximum of 10 references
Assessments
All entries will be reviewed by the ABN Faculty of Fellows, Education and Research committees. The successful candidates will be informed by the Education Committee Chair within 6 weeks of the closing date however, this may change.
Important Notes
Applicants MUST keep within the guidelines as set out above. Those not complying will not be scored.
We regret that we are unable to offer feedback to unsuccessful applicants.
Deadline: Monday 12th January 2026 at 23:59.
Submit Here
2024
- Yu Heng Ho - Audit
- Jessica Harding - Clinical
- Caleb Cole - Research
2023
- Moritz Steinruecke - Audit
- Abdulkadir Mohamed - Clinical
- Lauren Baldwin - Research
2022
- Devya Kumaresan - Audit
- Lewis Winyard - Clinical
- Avik Ghosh - Research
2021
- Prisca Singh - Audit
- Lydia Seed - Clinical
- Sarah Perrott - Research
2020
- Ella Burchill - Clinical Case - A clinical case of relevant to neurology with appropriate discussion
- Jakov Tiefenbach - Research - Testing the ‘seizure scaffold’: what can experimental simulation tell us about functional seizures?
- Mohit Litesh - Audit - Management of the commonest inherited muscle disease in neurology clinics: Are we doing well? An audit in a tertiary referral centre against the published recommendations.
2019
- Kajal Patel - University of Manchester - Trends in immunoglobulin usage a Salford Royal Hospital: The need for refinement of national guidelines
- Georgia Wright - University of Cambridge - Clinicoradiological characterization of FIG4-related combined system disease with neuropathy: a case report
- Robin Borchert - University of Edinburgh - Tau burden and the functional connectome in Alzheimer's disease
2018
- Gargi Samarth - Imperial College London - Evaluating the in-vitro effect of chemovirotherapy against primary human DIPG
- Edward Christopher - University of Edinburgh
- Simon Williams - University of Birmingham - Emerging utility of culture-independent techniques in the diagnosis of CNS infections- reflections on a single-centre audit of meningitis management in the UK
2017
- Petros Fessas - University of Cambridge
- Matthew Myers - University of Southampton
- Aaron Jesuthasan - University of Newcastle
2016
- Avinash Narayanan - University of Manchester - Investigating the Pathogenesis of Vascular Parkinsonism (VaP): Does Neuroinflammation Matter?
- Amine Awad - University of Oxford - Two Cases of Mild Encephalopathy with Reversible Splenial lesion (MERS) in two UK Teaching Hospitals
Kevin Teo - University of Cambridge - Management of thin saliva symptoms in patients with Motor Neurone Disease
2015
- Sanjeev Ramachandran - Imperial College London - The role of numerical cognition in social decision-making
- Emeka Okonji - University of Oxford < - Adult-onset Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis (Kufs Disease)
- Lydia Silvester - University of Manchester - Bone Health in Parkinson’s disease; Evaluation and Recommendation, Salford Royal NHS Trust
2014
- Rebecca Hodnett - Kings College London - The Stroop Suppression Test as a marker of Salience Network integrity
- Katy Westwood - Clinical - Ataxia Telangiectasia-like Disorder
2013
- Anam Anzak - University College London - Deep Brain Stimulation for Machado-Joseph disease
- Hannah Shereef - University of Birmingham - The glycoprotein, Decorin, is a novel anti-proliferative and anti-angiogenic treatment for Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM)
2012
- James Coleman - University of Nottingham - Presence of autoantibodies in patients with glioma
- Josh Kahan - University College London - Sodium oxybate as a treatment for DBS-resistant, alcohol-responsive post-anoxic myoclonus
- Hannah Swinburne - Cardiff University < - An audit to assess the efficacy of Vagal Nerve Stimulators in children in the treatment of intractable epilepsy
2011
- Clara Belessiotis-richards - Kings College London - Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy presenting as corticobasal degeneration syndrome in a heart transplant recipient
- Peter Arthur-farraj - University College London < - Hand weakness in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease 1X
2010
- Matthew Grant - University of Liverpool - The Genetic Determinants of Lamotrigine Dosing in Epilepsy
2009
- Elizabeth Wood - University of Sheffield - Microarray analysis identifies the gene signature of spared versus vulnerable motor neurone groups
