Fleming Prize Winner Q&As

Learn more about the research that led some of our previous Fleming Prize recipients to win the award, what made them pursue a career in science and what winning the prize means to them in our series of Q&A interviews below. 

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  Prize Winner Q&A– Professor Peter Fineran

  The 2019 Fleming Prize was awarded to Professor Peter Fineran who was recognized for his research in phage resistance systems and discusses how CRISPR can benefit the average person. In this interview he tells us more about his work and how it feels to win a Microbiology Society prize.

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  Prize Winner Q&A– Dr Sarah Coulthurst

  The 2017 Fleming Prize winner was Dr Sarah Coulthurst who is a Reader and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at the University of Dundee. She is also a member of the Microbiology Society. In this interview she tells us more about her research and what winning the Fleming Prize meant to her..

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  Prize Winner Q&A – Professor Stephen Baker

  The 2017 Fleming Prize was awarded to Professor Stephen Baker in recognition for his work on enteric diseases in low- and middle-income countries. In this interview we find out what made him interested in science, how his research led him to work in Vietnam and how he has adjusted to working in various disciplines.

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  Prize Winner Q&A – Dr David Grainger

  The 2016 Fleming Prize was awarded to Dr David Grainger in recognition of his innovative studies in the field of bacterial chromosome biology. In this interview we find out what winning the Fleming Prize meant to him and how he followed a slightly different career path to most academics.

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  Prize Winner Q&A – Professor Mike Brockhurst

  The 2015 Fleming Prize was awarded to Professor Mike Brockhurst for his research which explores the real-time evolutionary dynamics of microbes using both lab experiments and studies of pathogens in human chronic infections. In this interview we find out more about what winning the Fleming Prize meant to him.