Stanley Peart 1922 – 2019

Sir Stanley Peart was a clinician and clinical researcher who made a major contribution to our understanding of blood pressure regulation. He was the first to demonstrate the release of noradrenaline in response to sympathetic nerve stimulation. He was also the first to purify, and determine the structure of, angiotensin and he later isolated the enzyme, renin, and carried out many important investigations of the factors controlling its release in the body.

 

Each year the BIHS runs the prestigious Stanley Peart Essay Competition for Early Career Researchers working in the UK. Over the past 5 years, all of our prize winners have successfully published their work in the Journal of Human Hypertension and the generous £1000 prize has supported our prize winners to participate in a range of exciting educational activities. But even for those who didn’t win the prize, our competition entrants have gone on to achieve great things.

 

Previous Winners

2020 Spoorthy Kulkarni - Hypertension management in 2020: a kaleidoscopic view 

2021 Sarah Nicole Winner -  Do holograms develop hypertension?

2022 Stephanie Lip - A tale of two diseases

2023 Rebecca Hanna Winner - Hypertension is a genetic condition—a quantum dilemma

2024 Abilash Sathyanarayanan - First, a seat; then, an upgrade

2024 Bernadette Jenner - “Deeds not words”: the forgotten class