And for GI trainees and early career consultants from the rest of the country who might benefit from knowing more, please attend a talk by Fraser Brown at the Education Symposium at BSG Live 2025 in Glasgow. BSG Trainees #bsglive25

Join us for a COLO-SPEED takeover of Grainger Market in aid of Bowel Cancer Awareness Month! COLO-SPEED is the world's largest colorectal cancer research group. Come along and find out about how bowel cancer is diagnosed, the research we do, and how to get involved!

Call for abstracts! We are looking for NE trainees/allied professionals who have completed research or audits in gastro recently! Get in touch for the opportunity to present them in a friendly, supportive environment and the potential to role your project out across the region!

Well done! This is brilliant news - great to see trainees in the region benefitting from GRANT Network 🎉

🏆#BSGLive2025 - Award For Dr Eleanor Hackney🏆 Congrats to #ColoCohort researcher Ellie for winning the Alistair McIntyre Prize for "EmPath" - a project she co-created to empower endoscopy trainees in recognising & managing Upper GI pathology via targeted study days. South Tyneside & Sunderland Research & Innovation

Fun afternoon with the GRANT Network discussing research promotion through the training network. Talk by Keith Pohl about research in endoscopy. Great abstracts and well done Drs Checkitt and Chu for winning the best abstracts.

This year’s GRANT symposium was a great success! We had brilliant talks from Prof John Leeds Prof John Leeds and Dr Keith Pohl Keith Pohl, followed by six fantastic presentations by trainees in our region who have completed excellent projects!

Introducing this year’s prize winners… 🥈Runner up: Dr Agatha Chu for her project on blood test monitoring in upadacitinib 🥇First prize: Dr Laura Checkett with her work on standardising HCC ultrasound surveillance and integration of US LI-RADS into clinical practice

🎖 Well done to Dr Eleanor Hackney, winner of The Alistair McIntyre Prize for Improving #Gastroenterology Training! A standout commitment to better training #BSGLIVE25 @BSGtrainees

Celebrating Excellence: NU Cancer Conference 2025 Prize winner spotlight 🏆 Congrats to Dr. Eleanor Hackney on winning a poster award! Eleanor shined a light on her research around the utility of multiple FIT testing in symptomatic colorectal cancer patients. 🧪 #CancerResearch

🚨Recent publication alert! 🚨 Two of our committee members are authors of this systematic review on the faecal microbiome in colorectal neoplasia, recently published in AP&T Wiley in research onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ap… Congratulations Sarah and Ellie!