Each year the AMR Centre awards two prestigious prizes for antimicrobial-related research publications. One is awarded to an LSHTM staff member, including assistant 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.

Previous prize winners

Our 2023 prizes were awarded to: 

• Bern-Thomas Nyang'wa (MD, MPH), PhD student and a Medical Director of Médecins Sans Frontières for his publication in The New England Journal of Medicine: "A 24-Week, All-Oral Regimen for Rifampin-Resistant Tuberculosis". 

• Collins Timire, a PhD student and Public Health Specialist/Researcher for his paper in PLOS Global Public Health: “Coverage and effectiveness of conditional cash transfer for people with drug resistant tuberculosis in Zimbabwe: A mixed methods study”

• Dr Khalid Beshir, an Assistant Professor of genomic epidemiology specialising in malaria drug resistance and diagnostics, who won our staff prize for his paper in The Lancet Infectious Diseases: “Prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum haplotypes associated with resistance to sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine and amodiaquine before and after upscaling of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in seven African countries: a genomic surveillance study”.

Our 2022 prizes were awarded to: 

• Dr Finn McQuaid, an assistant professor in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, for his paper in The Lancet Global Health: The global impact of household contact management for children on multidrug-resistant and rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis cases, deaths, and health-system costs in 2019: a modelling study.

• Ms Susan Nagiya, a PhD student in the Department of Global Health and Development, for her publication in Medical Anthropology: Taking Opportunities, Taking Medicines: Antibiotic Use in Rural Eastern Uganda.

• Mrs Saffiatou Darboe, a research degree student based at MRCG at LSHTM, for her paper in Microbial Genomics: Genomic diversity and antimicrobial resistance among non-typhoidal Salmonella associated with human disease in The Gambia.

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.