2025 Medical Student Award Winners

2 December 2025

These prestigious Medical Student Awards are highly competitive and are awarded to the very best basic, translational or clinical research performed in the UK respiratory community by Medical students.

Qualifying projects can include clinical audit, quality improvement, systematic review writing or laboratory work. The prizes are awarded based on the quality and content of the research performed and the quality of the abstract submitted.

Winner

Hai Nguyen of the University of Cambridge is the winner of this year's BTS Medical Student Abstract Prize for his work titled Differential roles of the integrins cd11b and cd11c in human neutrophil extravasation across pulmonary and systemic endothelium.

Highly Commended

Shruthi Barathan of Imperial College London has been highly commended for her work on Longitudinal change in respiratory function in firefighters; results from the Grenfell Firefighter Study.