2025 Prizes

The Ronnie MacKeith Prize 2025 
was awarded to
Dr Elizabeth Radford (University of Cambridge; and Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton)
for presentation entitled
‘Turning the tide of variants of uncertain significance: a role for saturation mutagenesis?’


Best Oral Presentation by a Trainee Prize 2025
was awarded to
Dr Jonathon Holland (University Of Cambridge Department Of Clinical Neurosciences)

for presentation entitled
‘Evaluating visual assessments for the design of clinical remyelination trials in multiple sclerosis in children'



Best Oral Poster Presentation by a Trainee Prize 2025
was awarded to
Dr Gayathri Varma Narendran (University Hospitals of North Midlands)

for presentation entitled
‘Current practices on management of children with spike-and-wave activation in sleep'


Best Online Poster Presentation by a Trainee Prize 2025
was awarded to Dr Thomas Leyland (Royal Belfast Hospital For Sick Children)
for presentation entitled
‘A review of paediatric patients with confirmed SCN1A mutation in Northern Ireland'


Best Poster Presentation by a Medical Student Prize 2025
was awarded to
Ms Nandika Ramamurthy (Newcastle University)

for presentation entitled
‘Deep Learning-Based Classification of Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders in Children'



Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology (DMCN) Best Article by a BPNA early career Member Prize 2025
was awarded to
Dr George Davies (University Hospitals Bristol and Weston, Bristol)
for paper entitled
'Growth patterns in individuals with CDKL5 deficiency disorder'