🎉🎉🎉🎉AND THE WINNERS ARE… 🎉🎉🎉🎉
A huge thank you to all the finalists who took part in The British Transplantation Society Innovation Competition 2026.
The finalists all presented excellent projects, making it tough for the judges to select just one winner for each prize.
Congratulations to our two winners:
🏆 QUOD Impact Award
Michael Corr (Queen’s University Belfast)
Are plasma proteomic signatures at retrieval associated with early graft dysfunction in high-risk deceased donor kidneys?
🔬 Open Discovery Award
Isaac Chung (City St George’s, University of London)
Investigation into differences in vascular biology of kidney transplant recipients and donors
Thank you to everyone who submitted their research proposals and to our six finalists, who presented their projects in front of a panel of judges and peers at the BTS Congress 2026 in Llandudno on 5 March, 2026.
A huge thank you to Live Life Give Life, who funded the two awards available. The prizes will provide pump-priming funding of up to ÂŁ3500, with one project including the use of QUOD Biobank samples.
“Taking part in the Live Life Give Life / BTS / QUOD Impact Award competition was a fantastic experience. It was a great opportunity to present my research ideas and to hear about the innovative work being carried out by other early career researchers.
My research focuses on using proteomics to better risk-stratify higher-risk donor kidneys, with the aim of improving how we assess and utilise donated organs. Winning the award is incredibly encouraging, and the funding will allow me to access QUOD resources to help develop this work further and support the establishment of my research agenda as I progress in my post-doctoral career.”
Michael Corr, winner of the QUOD Impact Award