Current Application Deadline: 31 August 2026 23:59
2026 Undergraduate Essay Competition Title:
"How can personalised pathology facilitate personalised medicine?"
Who is eligible?
Undergraduate members of the Society.
For details of how to join the Society please click here.
Deadline date
Deadline to apply 31 August 2026.
The following document will need to be uploaded during the application process:
A signed copy of the Certificate of Originality.
Please read the full terms and conditions before submitting your essay.
Prize: £500. The award will be presented to the winner at the Path Soc Winter Meeting, the following year. The winning essay will be published on our website (www.pathsoc.org). Full details in the terms and conditions.
Scoring Criteria
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Winning Essays
2025 (Joint Winner) - "Will Artificial Intelligence replace histopathology in the future" by Izieduwa Akhionbare
2025 (Joint Winner) - "Will Artificial Intelligence replace histopathology in the future" by Vishal Vijay Kumar
2023 (Joint Winner) - "Integration of Digital Pathology and Multi-Omics – The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" by Tejas Easwar
2023 (Joint Winner) - "Integration of Digital Pathology and Multi-Omics – The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" by Linh Tran
2022 - "Books versus computers - what does the future of pathology education look like?" by Nidhi Vivek
2021 - 'How does understanding pathology help anticipate future healthcare requirements?' by Keisha Davies
2020 - 'A clinical pathologist on every paper......the importance of pathologists in translational medical research' by Precious Jolugbo
2019 - 'Without Pathology, medical education is futile, discuss' by Reiltin Tynan
2018 - 'Does Tumour heterogeneity matter' by Casmir Turnquist
2017 - 'Discuss how chronic inflammation and the immune system both promote and protect against cancer and how this may be therapeutically modulated" by Sidhant Seth
2016 - 'Discuss recent advances in our understanding of the pathobiology of non-coding RNA' by Jason Mak
2015 - 'Both clinical and academic pathology are becoming increasinly interdisciplinary in nature. Discuss' by Marco Narajos
2014 - How 'Digital Pathology: Will machines replace the pathologist and a microscope?' by Ankit Bhatt
2013 - How 'personalised' is personalised medicine? What are the challenges for pathology in delivering this for patients? by Kate Sutton
2012 - Pathology has been called 'the hidden science that saves lives'. Discuss how pathology directly impacts on patients, and compare the past, present and possible future effects of pathology on a patient’s journey by Aniruddh Chhabra
2011 - So, what will the pathologist be doing in ten years time? by Timothy Shaw
2010 - The Autopsy Is Dead by Chei Yang Koo
2009 - Molecular Genetics Will Make Histopathologists Redundant by Marie Stolbrink
2008 - Discuss the impact of media and the popular portrayal of pathology on its profile by Andrew Bamber
2007 - There is no place for pathology in modern medical curricula by Kezia Gaitskell, Oxford
2006 - The Conventional Autopsy still has an Important Role in Modern Medicine by Rachna Bajaj
2005 - Understanding the mechanism of disease is the basis of sound medical practice by Kirsten Borthwick, Edinburgh