Read the stories of those who benefited from our range of available grants and bursaries below.
BDIAP Annual Symposium
Upper GI Pathology 2022
took place at 10 Union Street, London on the 18-19 November. Please find below the reports from bursary recipients who attended the meeting.
RUSU, Stefan
TAZE, Dilek
Urological Pathology 2021
Gynaecological Pathology 2019
took place at the Royal Society of Medicine, London on the 22-23 November. Please find below the reports from bursary recipients who attended the meeting.
CHAMBERS, Elisabeth
HABANABAKIZE, Thomas
KRUSEMAN, Nick
MANSY, Mina
MUGABE, Fiacre
NGIMBA, Caroline
RANAWEERA, Gayani
RASHID, Sameera
SHORT, Emma
STANNARD, Elizabeth
UWAMARIYA, Delphine
Lower GI Pathology 2018
took place at the Royal Institute of British Architects, London on the 23-24 November. Please find below the reports from bursary recipients who attended the meeting.
DE SILVA, Lalani
Breast Pathology 2017
took place at the Royal Institute of British Architects, London on the 24-25 November. Please find below the reports from bursary recipients who attended the meeting.
NEVILLE, Grace
VAN BOCKSTAL, Mieke
Biennial IAP Meetings
The International Academy of Pathology holds biennial international congress. Bursaries are available for Members who present an oral or poster presentation.
IAP Congress 2020
Due to Covid-19 this event took place virtually on the rescheduled date of 6-8 December. Please find below the reports from bursary recipients for the meeting
Congress Central Bursary
ELSHENNAWY, Rawda
HABANABAKIZE, Thomas
HUSAIN, Nazik Elmalaiak
KIMAMBO, Asteria
NGIMBA, Caroline
ODIGWE, Alexander
OLORUNSOLA, Ifeoluwa Seun
RUGWIZANGOGA, Belson
RUSU, Stefan
Educational Fellowship Bursary
ABOELNASR, Lamia
AZAM, Ayesha
DASHORA, Abhishek
DINNEEN, Kate
MUGABE, Fiacre Byiringiro
POTTS, Jonathan
WESTABY, Joseph
WOLF, Janina Luisa
YOUSUF, Aza
Nermin Durakovic Bursary
UDOVICIC-GAGULA, Dalma
Trainee Member Bursary
ALDRIDGE, Jocelyn
BALKENHOL, Maschenka
BEAUCHAMP, Katie
BEN-MUSSA, Ali
GAITSKELL, Kezia
KELLEHER, Mai
LEUCA, Andrei
MUZASHVILI, Teona
NTALA, Chara
TILLEY, Kate
ZHANG, Dennis
IAP Congress 2018
took place at the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Centre, Jordan on the 14-18 October. Please find below the reports from bursary recipients for the meeting
MUGABE, Fiacre
BDIAP Innovation Grants
The Innovation Grants are for BDIAP Member Country Ordinary, Trainee And Allied Scientist Members and are intended to assist study in other departments of Histopathology /Molecular Pathology in the UK or overseas.
2024
Brockmoeller, Scarlet studied at Cytology Department, Brigham Women’s Hospital, Boston, US and the Cytology Department, Pittsburgh University Hospital, UPMC, Pittsburgh, US.
Meeuwsen, Frédérique undertook a six-month internship at the Computational Pathology group at Radboud University Medical Center (Radboudumc), Nijmegen, Netherlands.
BDIAP Educational Fellowships
These grants, for BDIAP members (including trainees), are to fund visits to study in pathology laboratories in the UK and overseas. These grants have now been discontinued. For other funding opportunties, please see the bursary page.
2021
Due to Covid-19, BDIAP Educational Fellowships were postponed in 2020. Please find below the reports from bursary recipients who were awarded a bursary at the end of 2019 and had their studies postponed to 2021.
SHORT, Emma - studied at Cardiff and Vale College, Wales, UK
2019
Please find below the reports from bursary recipients.
LIU, Drolaiz - studied at Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
International Junior Academy Summer School
Organised by the German Division of the IAP, the junior academy summer school is aimed at pathologists in training and in the post training period.
10th Junior Academy
Please find below the reports from bursary recipients for the meeting.
SLAVIN, Gabrielle
International Subcommittee Report
Joint IAP Meetings
Liverpool Pathology 2023
took place at the University of Liverpool 27-29 June. Please find below the reports from bursary recipients who attended the meeting.
Abdelaziz, Islam
Alam, Jafrin
Chemonges, Cynthia
Douglas, Adam
Elshennawy, Rawda
Field, Daniel
Guan, Yue
Hunter, Harriet
Ibison, Fran
Kret, Anastasiya
Mugabe Byiringiro, Fiacre
Rupar, Ollie
Saif, Danah
Sharp, Abigail
Simonovic, Alexandra
Vipulananthan, Maithreyee
Manchester Pathology 2021
took place virtually, on the 6-8 July. Please find below the reports from bursary recipients for the meeting.
COOPER, Rosalin
HABANABAKIZE, Thomas
HOLMBERG, Christopher
JENSEN, Melanie
JINADASA, Maheshika
KARUNATHILAKE, Nilupa
KHALID, Sana
MEDONSA, Dharani
PELL, Robert
PILETSKA, Nataliya
RASHID, Sameera
Maastricht Pathology 2018
BDIAP Student Electives
Student elective grants fund UK medical students to study pathology in a laboratory during their elective period.
2023
Please find below the reports from bursary recipients.
Gwalani, Sachi project at the Mallat laboratory, Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Kaar, Fidelma project at Department of Histopathology, Galway University Hospital and Department of Histopathology, Cork University Hospital.
Salek, Tajri project at University of Glasgow, Department of Forensics
Waudby-West, Hector project at Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Loyola Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
Yamani, Zara project at Cambridge University, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, based at the Rosie Hospital Addenbrookes
2022
Please find below the reports from bursary recipients.
Green, Jools project at Cellular Pathology Department, Poole Hospital
2019
Please find below the reports from bursary recipients.
BAXTER, John - project at Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Nothern Ireland
MUTI, Hannah - project at Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland
PLATTEN, Emily - project at South Tees Hospital, Middlesborough, England
SETHI, Dheeraj - project at Quadram Institute and Cotman Centre, Norwich, England
WANG, Kevin - project at Leeds Institute of Medical Research, Leeds, England
2018
Please find below the reports from bursary recipients.
JEFFERYS, Roxanne - studied at York Hospital, York, England
PILIPAVICIUS, Jordan – studied at the University of Leeds, Leeds, England
SETH, Sidhant - studied at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York, United States
2016
Please find below the reports from bursary recipients.
RAMCHANDER, Neal - studied at the Manchester Foundation Trust, Manchester, England
BDIAP Student Intercalated Degree Grants
These grants have now been discontinued. For other funding opportunties, please see the bursary page.
2021
Please find below the reports from bursary recipients.
ELKATKAT, Hannah - undertook a MRes Degree at Newcastle Medical School
ELGHOBASHY, Mirna - undertook a BMedSc Clinical Sciences at University of Birmingham
LIM, Christian - undertook a MRes degree at Newcastle University
MAGUIRE, Rebecca - undertook a MSc degree at Queen Mary University of London
2020
Please find below the reports from bursary recipients.
CALLAGHAN, Jonathan - undertook an MSc Degree at Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland
CHANSUWAN, Sarush - undertook an MRes Degree at Newcastle University, Newcastle, England
BDIAP Study Days
Molecular Pathology and Approach to Cut Up 2024
Molecular Pathology and Approach to Cut Up 2023
Molecular Pathology and Approach to Cut Up 2022
Molecular Pathology and Approach to Cut Up 2020
Please find below the reports from bursary recipients for the meeting.
ALLSOP, Daniel
GARDNER, Katie
GUL, Tahmina
HARAGAN, Alexander
JULAI, Atharina
LIM, Jane
MASON, Anna
PATTERSON, Julia
RUSU, Stefan
SUZUKI, Lucia
TILLEY, Kate
Molecular Pathology and Approach to Cut Up 2019
Molecular Pathology and Approach to Cut Up 2018
BDIAP Travel Bursaries
These are intended to support the cost of overseas travel undertaken by UK Members of the British Division to meetings of other IAP Divisions.
2019
Please find below the reports from bursary recipients.
PARK, Sojin - ISSTD Toronto
STANIFORTH, Joy - Swiss-Austrian Pathology Conference
USCAP Annual Meetings
These bursaries are made available each year to support Trainees who have had an abstract accepted at the Annual USCAP Meeting.
USCAP 2018
took place at the Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, Canada on the 17-23 March. Please find below the reports from bursary recipients for the meeting.
AIRD, John
LAGGNER, Ute
NEVILLE, Grace
Summer Meeting 2024: Joint BDIAP and RCPath Dermatopathology Update / Joint BDIAP and BLPG Programme on Skin Lymphomas