Infection Science Award
The Infection Science Award is an exchange scheme that facilitates the most promising trainee and early career presenters from the Federation of Infection Societies (FIS) Annual Conference (Infectious Disease Futures session) to present at the Microbiology Society Annual Conference (Infection Forum) and vice versa.
Eligibility
All self-defining early career and trainee presenters are eligible for the scheme. As a guide, the Microbiology Society’s EC Forum considers you an early career microbiologist if you’re an undergraduate or postgraduate student, or within five years of appointment to your first position after your highest degree earned. However, if this doesn’t fit your situation and you consider yourself an early career researcher, you are welcome to participate.
How to enter
If you are eligible for and wish to be considered for the Infection Science Award via a talk in the Microbiology Society Infectious Disease Futures session, please provide a statement (max. 150 words) outlining your current position and how the award will benefit your professional development. The judging panel will review this statement alongside your abstract to shortlist the entrants that will be considered for the Award during the session.
The awardees will be offered registration for the reciprocal meeting and invited to submit a publication to Journal of Medical Microbiology (JMM).
Award criteria
Abstract shortlisting
The abstracts submitted by eligible entrants will be shortlisted against the following criteria:
For the FIS Infectious Disease Futures session
- Essential:
1. coherent and well written abstract
2. rationale, data collected, interpretation and conclusions clearly stated
3. clear relevance of clinical/medical topic to infectious disease
- Desirable:
4. topic of potential interest to basic scientist
5. clinical/medical topic lacking in basic scientific infection research
6. topic that would potentially benefit from interaction with basic infection scientists and Microbiology Society Annual Conference attendees
For the Microbiology Society Infection Forum
- Essential:
1. coherent and well written abstract
2. rationale, data collected, interpretation and conclusions clearly stated
3. clear relevance of topic to the microbiology of infection
- Desirable:
4. topic of potential interest to clinicians and medical/biomedical related FIS attendees
5. basic scientific infection research topic lacking in translation to clinical/medical/biomedical and related practice
6. topic that would potentially benefit from interaction with clinicians and medical/biomedical related FIS attendees
Session presentations
A judging panel will attend the session to judge the entrants and select the awardees for announcement in the weeks following FIS or the Microbiology Society Annual Conference. The judges will focus on scientific content and communication and criteria related to the translation potential of research outlined in presentations. The full judging criteria can be found below:
Microbiology Society Infection Science Award Judging FormAnnual Conference 2024 Winners
- Seána Duggan, University of Exeter
- Antonia Molloy, Aston University
- Joshua Newson, ETH Zurich
Previous Winners
Event | Winner(s) |
FIS 2024 |
Alyssa Hudson, Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Mycology, University of Exeter Ioannis Baltas, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Helen Savage, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine |
Annual Conference 2024 |
Seána Duggan, University of Exeter Antonia Molloy, Aston University Joshua Newson, ETH Zurich |
FIS 2023 |
Neil Cunningham, NHS
Eva Bernadette Benyei, University of Cambridge
Ijeoma Okoliegbe, NHS Grampian, Aberdeen
James Shepherd, University of Glasgow- MRC Centre for Virus Research
|
Annual Conference 2023 |
Amber Barton, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
James Larkin, University College Cork, Ireland
Blanca Perez-Sepulveda, University of Liverpool, UK
|
FIS 2022 |
Eve Laycock, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust/London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Dowan Kwon, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Joshua Nazareth, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, UK
Ho Kwong Li, Imperial College London, UK
|
Annual Conference 2022
|
Eleanor Marshall, Imperial College London, UK
Rebecca McHugh, University of Strathclyde, UK
Matthew McKracken, University of Plymouth, UK
|
FIS 2021
|
Matthew Beaumont
Luke Mair
Luke Turner
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Annual Conference Online 2021
|
Srishti Baid
Alyson Hockenberry
Brenda Morris
Ann-Kathrin
Johannes Westman
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FIS/HIS 2020
|
Sarita Mohapatra
Mariya Molai
Anna Wild
Ioannis Baltas
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FIS 2019
|
Abigail Walker-Jacobs
Christopher Rooney
Jordan Skittrall
Vivien Price
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