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has-link-color alignwide wp-elements-fcb699291ef6430427119bc2d1307555 wp-block-post-title has-text-color has-standard-white-color\">NIHR Associate Principal Investigator Scheme<\/h1>\n\n<div class=\"has-text-align-center has-link-color cirg-screen-excerpt wp-elements-a8508ab0214aaef08ded30a066c8b76c wp-block-post-excerpt has-text-color has-standard-white-color\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Dr Hopkin&#8217;s shares his experience after completing the NIHR Associate Principal Investigator Scheme for our CIRG run project &#8220;Improving Outcomes in Necrotising Otitis Externa (IONOE)&#8221; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700;text-transform:uppercase; border-radius:50px; padding-top:9px;padding-bottom:9px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;\" class=\"has-text-align-center has-link-color cirg-news-page-date wp-elements-a1f8281b758fa992bda8a3d771af56d2 wp-block-post-date has-text-color has-standard-white-color has-background has-accent-plum-background-color\"><time datetime=\"2023-05-19T16:33:00+01:00\">19 May 2023<\/time><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<style>.kb-row-layout-id1714_f62120-5c > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(.kb-row-layout-id1714_f62120-5c > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}.kb-row-layout-id1714_f62120-5c > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);max-width:1280px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}.kb-row-layout-id1714_f62120-5c > .kt-row-layout-overlay{opacity:0.30;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kb-row-layout-id1714_f62120-5c > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kb-row-layout-id1714_f62120-5c > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}<\/style><div 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reflection and recently completing the the NIHR Associate Principal Investigator Scheme for the project&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cirg-edinburgh.co.uk\/projects\/ionoe\/\">\u201cImproving Outcomes in Necrotising Otitis Externa (IONOE)\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;within our CIRG research portfolio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>I completed my Associate Principal Investigator (API) scheme over a 6-month period between September 2022 and March 2023 for the Improving Outcomes in Necrotising Otitis Externa (IONOE) Study. 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