This award (formerly known as the Young Investigator Award) was established by the society in 2001 to recognise excellence among young researchers intending to pursue a career in cardiovascular clinical medicine or research. The prize is currently £1,500 for the winner and £500 for runners up. The award is sponsored by the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS), British Heart Foundation (BHF), British Atherosclerosis Society (BAS) and British Society for Cardiovascular Research (BSCR). Chairs Prof. Bryan Williams Dr. Sarah Clarke Judges Prof. David Greensmith Dr. Louise Buchanan Prof. Mark Petrie Prof. Theresa McDonagh Prof. Tomasz Guzik Presenters Speaker 1 (Abstract A): Dr. Fiyyaz Ahmed-Jushuf - ORBITA-FIRE: Defining the Physiological Threshold for Angina [Judge: Dr. Louise Buchanan] Speaker 2 (Abstract B): Dr. Joseph Barker - Decoding cardiovascular biological ageing using an AI-derived ECG age clock with multi-omic integration [Judge: Prof. David Greensmith] Speaker 3 (Abstract C): Dr. Oliver Brown - Characterisation of diabetes-associated adipose dysfunction across the BMI spectrum reveals transcriptomic signatures that improve cardiometabolic risk prediction [Judge: Prof. Tomasz Guzik] Speaker 4 (Abstract D): Dr. Ryan McNally - Towards personalised hypertension treatment: Renin status stratifies treatment response in the Ancestry Informative Markers in HYpertension (AIM-HY) randomized controlled trial (RCT) [Judge: Prof. Theresa McDonagh] Speaker 5 (Abstract E): Dr. Rouchelle Sriranjan - Anti-inflammatory therapy with Low-dose interleukin-2 (IL-2) in Acute Coronary Syndromes: The results of the IVORY trial and IVORY-FINALE study [Judge: Prof. Mark Petrie]