AMR Centre Publication Prize 2022 is now closed
Winners of the staff and student publications prizes will be awarded at an event taking place 17 May 2022.
Each year the AMR Centre awards two prestigious prizes for antimicrobial-related research publications. One is awarded to an LSHTM staff member, including professors, fellows and research assistants, and one is awarded to a PhD student. Applications are welcomed from the the MRC Unit The Gambia and the MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit, as well as scientists based in London.
Our 2021 prizes were awarded to:
- Dr Uduak Okomo, a postdoctoral research fellow at MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM, who won our staff prize for the second year running for her research published in The Lancet Microbe: Investigation of sequential outbreaks of Burkholderia cepacia and multidrug-resistant extended spectrum β-lactamase producing Klebsiella species in a West African tertiary hospital neonatal unit: a retrospective genomic analysis.
- Dr Titus Divala, a research degree student in the Infectious Disease Epidemiology department, won our student prize for his research in The Lancet Infectious Diseases: Utility of broad-spectrum antibiotics for diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Find out more about our 2021 winners.
Our 2020 prizes were awarded to:
- Dr Uduak Okomo, for her research published in Lancet Infectious Diseases: Aetiology of invasive bacterial infection and antimicrobial resistance in neonates in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis in line with the STROBE-NI reporting guidelines.
- Abdoulie Bojang, a PhD student at the MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM, for his research published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy: Genomic investigation of Staphylococcus aureus recovered from Gambian women and new-borns following an oral dose of intra-partum azithromycin.