An academic from Kingston University has been awarded the Young Investigator Award 2017.
Dr Nora Shaileshkumar Vyas, pictured, whose research focuses mainly on understanding the pathophysiology of schizophrenia using clinical, cognitive and neuroimaging techniques, was honoured at the 13th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark attracting around 4,000 delegates over five days.
The Award was in recognition of Dr Vyas’ research on dopamine dysregulation in schizophrenia using PET imaging, an imaging method used to study dopamine (D2/D3) receptor activity in specific brain regions in psychiatric populations. Dr Vyas’ research has recently been published in Schizophrenia Research, a niche journal.
“I am absolutely thrilled,” said Dr Vyas, who is an Associate Professor at Kingston University, London. She explained how she conducted the award-winning research while on the Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship, a scheme run by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. Earlier this year she was proud winner of the Marquis Who's Who Lifetime Award.
Heaping praise on Dr Vyas, Professor Dr Peter Falkai, Vice-President of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry, said: “Well done to Dr Vyas and to all winners whose work collectively adds even greater credence and value to the remarkable research in our specialist area of common interest.”
In 2010, Dr Vyas won the Asian Achievers ‘Gold’ Award for Achievement (AAA) in Healthcare.
