| AstraZeneca Scholarship : R100 000
Johannie du Plessis
Student
Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit
Department of Immunology
University of Pretoria
Investigating differences in the prevalence and
pathogenesis of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis in
South African subjects with an increased waist
circumference
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| The Gastroenterology
Foundation of South Africa Scholarship : R50 000
Gill Watermeyer
Consultant Gastroenterologist
GIT Clinic, Groote Schuur Hospital
The Protective Role of Previous Helminth
Infection in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
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Solvay Award : R30 000
Emil Loots
GI Fellow
Department of surgery, Nelson R. Mandela School
of Medicine
The use of bioimpedance in the assessment of
patients with obstructive jaundice and the
response to biliary drainage
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Free papers
These prizes kindly sponsored by Discovery
Best Oral (Clinical)
WHM Verbeek
VU Medical Centre, Amsterdam
Survival in patients with refractory celiac
disease and enteropathy associated T cell
lymphoma
Best Oral (Scientific)
Martin Niewoudt
Hepatology/GI research laboratory, Dept of
Immunology and Internal Medicine
University of Pretoria
Viral kinetics of HCV genotype 5 in South
African patients treated with pegylated-interferon-alpha
and ribavirin
Best Poster (Oral)
Sean Burmeister
University of Cape Town
Biliary-pleural fistulae following penetrating
liver trauma
Best Poster (Scientific)
Gill Watermeyer
GIT Clinic, Groote Schuur Hospital & Univesity
of Cape Town
MUC-5AC is absent in Crohn’s disease-associated
small bowel adenocarcinoma and in the adjacent
ulcer-associated cell lilneage but is aberrantly
expressed by uninvolved ileal mucosa
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Travel Awards
Kindly sponsored by Altana Madaus
Neo Seabi
Johannesburg General
Mashiko Setshedi
Groote Schuur Hospital
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Junior Investigator Travel Awards
Kindly sponsored by Discovery
Vukani Manzini
Morne’Nel
John Shaw
Maseelan Naidoo
Dion Levin
Junior Investigator Travel Awards
Kindly sponsored by the Gastroenterology
Foundation of South Africa
Lucien Ferndale
Deepu George
Sean Burmeister |
