Dr Andreas Charidimou was presented with a prestigious Young Investigators Award at the European Stroke Conference 2012 in recognition of his research characterising the spectrum of transient focal neurological episodes in cerebral amyloid angiopathy. Dr Charidimou presented his paper “Clinical-radiological spectrum of transient focal neurological episodes in cerebral amyloid angiopathy: multicentre MRI cohort study and systematic review’ at the European Stroke Conference 2012. The International Journal of Stroke Managing Editor Carmen Lahiff-Jenkins spoke to Dr Andreas Chairdimou, clinical research fellow in Stroke at the University College London Institute of Neurology with Dr David Warring and Dr Roth Jager and doing my Phd in applied clinical neuroimaging of cerebral small vessel disease.