Please save the date for the 47th Annual Meeting of the Irish Endocrine Society scheduled for 24^th/ 25^th November in Rosses Point, Sligo. Please note the closing date for abstracts is set for midnight 1st September 2023. The lead organiser for the 47th Annual Meeting is Siobhan Bacon with the assistance of the Committee.

Please save the date for the 28th Annual Study Day scheduled for the Royal College of Physicians, 6 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 for Friday 26^th January 2024.

Registration details for both meetings will follow.

Current Committee Irish Endocrine Society (after AGM 2024)

President:  Professor Steven Hunter

Secretary:  Dr Maeve Durkan (team ends November 2026)

Treasurer: Dr Mark Hannon

Communication Officer: Dr Pyeh Kyithar

Basic Science: Professor Graham Lee (term ends November 2027)

Paediatrics:  Professor Edna Roche (term ends February 2025), Dr Sinead Glackin

Leinster: Dr Pyeh Kyithar; Lead Organiser 49th Annual Meeting (term ends November 2025)

Ulster: Dr Helen Wallace; Lead Organiser Joint SfE-48th IES Annual Meeting (term ends November 2025)

Connacht: Dr Elizabeth Brosnan

Munster: Dr Mark Hannon, Lead Organiser 50th Annual Meeting  (term ends November 2026)

Subgroups: 

Subgroup Chairpersons

• Diabetes             Dr Antoinette Tuthill
• Endocrinology.  Professor Mark Sherlock
• Obesity               Professor Francis Finucane

If you wish to get involved in any of the activities of the Irish Endocrine Society, please contact any committee member.

Dear Colleagues,

Many thanks to all those involved in the recent 46th Annual Meeting of The Irish Endocrine Society held from 11th and 12th November 2022. It was a very well attended events with very high numbers attending in-person and also on the online platform

2022 MONTOGOMERY MEDAL (best oral presentation) Cliona O’Donnell for OC2 titled The Effect of Treatment with a Glucagon-like-peptide-1 Analogue on Metabolic Activity in Adipose Tissue: data from a proof-of-concept PET-CT study

2022 O’DOVOVAN MEDAL (best poster presentation) Robert Lyons for CR2 titled Case Report: The successful use of a MiniMed 780G insulin pump containing Teriparatide to treat symptomatic hypoparathyroidism in a patient with Barakat Syndrome

2022 BASIC SCIENCE GRANTS

Marie McIlroy Evaluation of androgen driven cancer cell entosis as a potential mechanism of endocrine therapy resistance in breast cancer Supervisors Prof. Jochen Prehn and Prof. Michael O’Reilly

Keith Rochfort To elucidate the effect of semaglutide on a three-dimensional model of the blood retinal barrier in a diabetic setting Supervisor Dr. Hannah Forde

2022 CLINICAL SCIENCE AWARDS

Mairead Crowley Evaluation of glycemic control and pregnancy outcomes in women with HNF1A-MODY and HNF4A-MODY Supervisor Prof. Maria M Byrne

Ben Loughrey Exome Sequencing to Characterise the Pituitary Neuroendocrine Tumour Microenvironment. Supervisor Prof. Steven Hunter

On behalf of the committee, please accept our thanks to all that participated in the 46th Annual Meeting. We are  looking forward to welcoming you at the Study Day scheduled for 27th January 2023 in the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, 6 Kildare Street, Dublin 2.

Congratulations to all who were involved in the 46th Annual Meeting of the Irish Endocrine Society. Thank you to each and every one of you for your support and your participation in the meeting.

The winner of the 2022 O’Donovan medal is Cliona O’Donnell for her oral presentation entitled ‘The Effect of Treatment with a Glucagon-like-peptide-1 Analogue on Metabolic Activity in Adipose Tissue: data from a proof-of-concept PET-CT study’.

The winner of the 2022 Montgomery medal is Robert Lyons for his poster entitled ‘The successful use of a MiniMed 780G insulin pump containing Teriparatide to treat symptomatic hypoparathyroidism in a patient with Barakat Syndrome’.

Thank you to those who submitted your research to the meeting.

Congratulations to all who were involved in the 45th Annual Meeting of the Irish Endocrine Society. Thank you to each and every one of you for your support and your participation in the meeting.

The winner of the 2021 O’Donovan medal is Lucy Kayes for her oral presentation entitled ‘Forty years experience of neonatal thyroid stimulating hormone screening in N.I.’.

The winner of the 2021 Montgomery medal is Clare Miller for her poster entitled ‘Hypoglycaemia in a Metastatic Gastrin secreting Pancreatic NET on Insulin Pump Therapy’.

A special Thank You is extended to Siobhan McQuaid for organising the 45th Annual Meeting.

Poster presentations: This year the posters will be presented as electronic posters. Please be aware of this when drafting your poster. A landscape orientation is preferred and recommended to assist with viewing but a portrait orientation will be accepted but will offer a suboptimal orientation for viewing. Please submit as a .pdf. Other formats cannot be accepted. Please save your final version with your Poster Number at the start of your filename followed by the Surname of the Presenting Author and save as a .pdf e.g. P14Gibney.pdf and submit by email to [email protected]

Video presentations: The year the oral presentations will be pre-recorded with the questions by videoconference immediately after the presentation. The timings for an oral presentation are ten minutes for the presentation and five minutes for questions. The timings for a presented poster are four minutes for the presentation and one minute for questions. Please adhere to these absolute time limits of fifteen minutes for an oral presentation and five minutes for a invited poster presentation as they will be strictly enforced. Please record the video presentations and submit as a .mp4 by email to [email protected] enclosing your preferred email for contact with the videoconferencing link with your presentation. Other formats cannot be accepted. Please save your presentation using your Presentation Number followed by the Surname of the Presenting Author as a filename e.g. OC7McQuaid.mp4

It is your choice on how to record your presentation as long as it is submitted as a .mp4 and within the time limits advised. For guidance on how to record a presentation using Microsoft Powerpoint, please search ‘Record a slide show with narration and slide timings’ in your Help. When complete, please search ‘Save a presentation as a movie file or MP4’ in your Help for guidance on how to export as an .mp4 and submit by email as to advised to [email protected]

Congratulations to all who had their abstracts accepted. Please submit your posters and oral presentations by email to [email protected] as soon as possible to ensure they are uploaded to the platform in advance of the meeting. As the meeting starts on 19th November, a strict embargo of 5pm on 17th November will be applied to allow one working day to get all the posters and presentations uploaded. Any posters not received by this time are at risk of not being uploaded to the platform and will be considered withdrawn.

REGISTRATION FOR THE IRISH ENDOCRINE SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING IS OPEN NOW

Please register for the upcoming meeting of the Irish Endocrine Society on Eventbrite on the following link

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/irish-endocrine-society-45th-annual-meeting-2021-tickets-203903590127?utm-campaign=social%2Cemail&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-source=strongmail&utm-term=checkoutwidget

The Basic Science Award is funded by the IES to enable researchers (clinical or non-clinical) to undertake laboratory based small research projects or pilot studies. The funding for 2021 is a grant worth a maximum of €10,000 (sterling equivalent). One award will be offered in 2021. Salary support can be requested but should not make up the entirety of the grant.

Applications will be accepted from applicants within the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland for clinical or basic science laboratory based projects. Applications are particularly welcome from younger academic researchers who are within five years of their first appointment. Applicants must demonstrate that they have a genuine research interest in Endocrinology within the island of Ireland and show that they have a full time post for the lifetime of the proposed grant.

All Applicants on the Basic Science Grant application must be fully paid members of the Irish Endocrine Society and the principal author of the study needs to be a fully paid member of the IES for the past 3 consecutive years. The Secretary of the IES can approve membership applications prior to ratification at the Annual IES AGM

Applications are to be made to Dr Paula O’Shea [email protected] The deadline for applications for the 2021 award is Thursday 2nd September 2021. The winner of the award is announced at the IES AGM.

The application form and guidelines, including the assessment criteria are attached below.

Application Form: Basic Science Grant Application Form 2021

Application Guidelines: IES Grant Scheme Guidelines 2021

2018 Basic Science Awards

Dr James Gibney and Dr Fiona McGillicuddy “High density lipoprotein particles as metabolic hormones – does diabetes alter the signalling pathways induced by these particles to increase cardiovascular risk”.

2017 Basic Science Awards

Andrew McCloskey and Professor Aine McKillop “Investigation of the mechanistic function of GPR120 in islet cell physiology using CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing and intracellular signalling analysis”

2016 Basic Science Awards

Prof James Gibney and Dr Fiona McGillycuddy: To compare high-density lipoprotein function and composition in type 1 versus type 2 diabetes and determine relationship to early measures of atherosclerosis.

Dr Shona Pfeiffer, Prof Jochen Prehn and Dr Maria Byrne: An in vivo pre-clinical study exploring microRNA-224 (miR-224) as a new therapeutic target for the treatment of diabetes.

2015 Basic Science Awards

Dr Conall Dennedy: An investigation of the effects of oxysterols in modulating adrenocortical carcinoma.

Professor Finbarr O’Harte: Pre-clinical development of novel apelin-13 drug candidates for diabetes therapy

2014 Basic Science Awards

Professor Aine McKillop: Targeting G protein coupled receptors with novel lipid agonists as a potential therapy for type 2 diabetes

Mr Conor Kerley & Dr John McDermott: Dietary nitrate to attenuate impaired glucose tolerance: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover trial.

2013 Basic Science Awards

Dr Francis Finucane, Dr Amir Shafat: Title: Oral glucose breath test for diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus

Dr Yasser Abdel-Wahab, Dr Peter Flatt: Title: Pharmacological studies of novel amphibian skin peptide-analogues for the treatment of type-2 diabetes

2012 Basic Science Awards

Dr N Irwin: Title: Harnessing the potential of gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP) for treatment of bone disorders

Dr K Mullan & Dr P Mullan Title: Prospective study of the effect of  25 OH Vit D and 1,25 OH2 Vit D on coronary heart disease risk : PRIME study (Prospective Epidemiological Study of Myocardial Infarction)