FIS 2021: Infection Science Award Winners
06 December 2021
The Microbiology Society is delighted to announce that three trainees who presented at FIS 2021 have been awarded an Infection Science Award.
The winners of the award, who will present during the Infection Forum at Annual Conference 2022 and will be invited to submit a publication to Access Microbiology, are as follows:
Matthew Beaumont, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK, Clinical impact and public health challenges of a PVL-MRSA bacteraemia outbreak amongst the injecting drug user community in South Yorkshire
Luke Mair, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK, A Strep in the Right Direction: The Prevalence of Infective Endocarditis in Viridans group Streptococci bacteraemia, a retrospective analysis
Luke Turner, Public Health Wales, UK, Establishing the predictive power of whole genome sequencing to determine antimicrobial susceptibility of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae
The Microbiology Society Infection Science Award is an exchange scheme which facilitates the most promising presenters from the Infectious Disease Futures session at the Federation of Infection Society (FIS) meeting to present at the Microbiology Society Annual Conference Infection Forum and vice versa. The scheme aims to support the exchange of ideas and the career development of selected early career and trainee researchers, helping to translate microbiological research to the clinic.
The Microbiology Society Annual Conference 2022 will take place from 4–7 April. Why not put yourself forward to for the 2022 Infection Science Award? Find out more and register on the Annual Conference 2022 event page.
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