BIR selects 2025’s standout contributions to radiology
Radiologist and scientist Professor Ferdia Gallagher was among those honoured at The British Institute of Radiology (BIR) Annual Congress in November, 2025. He was presented with the Sir Godfrey Hounsfield award at the event held in London, after his talk titled ‘Translating new imaging technologies into patient care’. Professor Gallagher leads the clinical molecular imaging group in the department of radiology at the University of Cambridge and is also head of department. He said: “Our team has developed new imaging methods that allow non-invasive assessment of tissue metabolism, which can be used to stratify disease and detect early and successful response to treatments.”
The prize was presented to him by BIR president Dr Nick Screaton, who also gave Professor Louise Rainford the BIR/DeepHealth Mayneord Memorial Lecture award, following her corresponding talk ‘Blue sky or storm clouds: transforming the “traditional” to embrace the future’. She is associate dean of radiography at University College Dublin School of Medicine and a leading figure in medical imaging, with extensive experience in clinical radiography and academic leadership.
The winner of the BIR/Bayer Make it Better Service Award was Chirag Lakhani, superintendent radiotherapy radiographer at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Rickmansworth, for the project ‘Implementing a 17-day pathway for patients undergoing radical radiotherapy for head and neck cancer’. Having worked at multiple NHS trusts, the novel and streamlined pathway he observed led to the submission for the award.
BIR’s George du Boulay Pump-Priming Award rewards innovative research by providing small grants and went to Dr Vinson Chan, an ST1 clinical radiology trainee on the interventional radiology pathway at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. With a strong background in collaborative networks and interventional oncology, he is the principal investigator of the DEFINE-IO study, a UNITE collaborative project that combines national Delphi consensus with multi-criteria decision analysis.
Of the four awards given for articles published in the BIR’s journals, the BJR Barclay Medal went to Dr Bobby S K Bhartia and team for the paper ‘The incidence of lung cancer amongst primary care chest radiograph referrals – an evaluation of national and local datasets within the United Kingdom’.
Manuel Lopez-Melia and team were awarded the BJR Early Career Investigator Award for their paper ‘Deep learning for acute rib fracture detection in CT data: a systematic review and meta-analysis’.
‘Improving traumatic fracture detection on radiographs with artificial intelligence support: a multi-reader study’ won the BJR|Open Best Article Award for Dr Rikke Bachmann and team.
The BJR|Case Reports Dr Prafulla Ganguli Award was given to Dr Yuichi Yaaguchi and team for their article: ‘The first case of methotrexate-associated lymphoproliferative disorder in the sacrum: a case report’.
Read this report on page 14 of the January 2026 issue of RAD Magazine.
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