Stanley Peart Essay Competition

Stanley Peart Prize 2025

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.
 

Stanley Peart Competition Prize – £1000

This prestigious prize, generously funded by The Foundation for Circulatory Health, will be awarded for the best essay submitted by an Early Career Researcher attending the  2025 BIHS Annual Scientific Meeting which is being held at Churchill College, Cambridge, UK, 29 – 30 September 2025.

This years’ essay topic is:

“Is Essential Hypertension really Primary or Essential?

The essay competition is now open and will close on Sunday 27 April 2025 at 23:59

Essays must be no longer than 2000 words, excluding references and should be submitted via the online portal. In the online portal, please complete the requested fields and describe how you meet the entry criteria of an early career researcher. Full details, including essay specifications and format, are in the Terms and Conditions below. Please note that it is expected that the prize winner will attend the BIHS Annual Scientific Meeting and that the prize funds will be used by the competition winner to facilitate further educational or research experiences, such as short visits to other laboratories or attendance at an international scientific meeting.

**Please submit your essay via the online portal

Ensure your essay is anonymised to be eligible for review.**

STANLEY PEART PRIZE

Entrant Terms and Conditions

1. This competition is open to Early Career Researchers (ERC) working in the UK. An Early Career Researcher is defined as an undergraduate or postgraduate student or employed in a training-grade role, up to and including specialist registrar level or at early career researcher level, or equivalent, as deemed appropriate by the Executive Committee. Only one entry per ERC is permitted.
2. A prize of £1000 will be awarded to the competition winner, along with registration, travel expenses (up to £200 for economy travel) and one nights’ accommodation for the BIHS Annual Scientific Meeting. Th prize along with a certificate and trophy will be presented at the BIHS Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM). The competition winner will be notified at least one month in advance of the ASM.
3. It is expected that the prize funds will be used to facilitate the competition winner in undertaking short visits to other laboratories or attending an international scientific meeting, to further their educational or research experiences. The prize winner will be required to report back to the BIHS on their experience before the Annual Scientific Meeting the following year.
4. The winner will need to submit a proposal, to be approved by the BIHS Executive Committee on how they want to use the prize money. If the winner plans on visiting another institution, they must receive a letter of agreement from that institution to host the visit. The prize money will ONLY be transferred to the winner once all receipts relating to the activity are received by the BIHS after the activity has taken place.
5. The maximum word count for essays is 2000 words (excluding references). A maximum of two images or tables will be accepted. Entries must be submitted in either Microsoft word (doc or docx) or PDF files. No other formats will be accepted. Please do not submit any personal details on the essay. All submissions will be reviewed blindly.
6. Entries should be unique and not published elsewhere or submitted to other essay competitions.
7. Entries should be submitted via the dedicated portal on the BIHS website.
8. The competition closes on Sunday 27 April 2025 at 23:59. The winner will be notified by email on or before Monday 30 June 2025 and all other competitors notified by email shortly thereafter. We are unable to provide feedback on individual entries.
9. All entries must be the original work of the entrant and must not infringe the rights of any other party.
10. Be aware that if you use AI tools (such as ChatGPT or others) to generate the essay (or part of the essay) and submit this as if it were your own work, this will be regarded as a breach against the competitions rules and your essay will be disqualified.
11. Entrants will retain copyright to the work they submit. By entering the competition, all entrants grant to the BIHS the right to publish and exhibit their work in any of our publicity and on the website. No fees will be payable for any of the above uses. The winning essay will be submitted for publication in the Journal of Human Hypertension. Please note that there is no guarantee of acceptance as the submission will still be subject to the Journal’s standard review and editorial processes.
12. By entering the competition, entrants will be deemed to have agreed to be bound by these rules, and the BIHS reserves the right to exclude any entry from the competition at any time if the organisers have reason to believe that an entrant has breached these rules.
13. The BIHS reserves the right to cancel this competition or alter any of the rules at any stage, if deemed necessary in its opinion, and if circumstances arise outside of its control.
14. If the winner is unable to be contacted after reasonable attempts have been made or is unable to attend the ASM without reasonable explanation, the BIHS reserves the right either to offer the prize to a runner up, or to re-offer the prize in any future competition.
15. All entrants will be required to sign up to have read, understood and accepted these terms and conditions, and if any of the rules are deemed to have been breached, the submission will automatically be disqualified