Winners of the Research Medal Awards

The College received an exceptionally high standard of applications for the Trainees Research Medal Award. Thank you to everyone who applied. The winner are listed here.

Gold medal

Dr Fergus Hamilton – Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Paper: Aerosol emission from the respiratory tract: an analysis of aerosol generation from oxygen delivery systems
Publication: Open Access November 2021

Silver Medals

Agbuduwe Charles – Haematology
Paper: Ferry, G. M.*, Agbuduwe, C.*, Forrester, M., Dunlop, S., Chester, K., Fisher, J., Anderson, J., & Barisa, M. (2022). A Simple and Robust Single-Step Method for CAR-Vδ1 γδT Cell Expansion and Transduction for Cancer Immunotherapy. Frontiers in Immunology, 0, 2419.  
Publication: Frontiers in Immunology 31 May 21 

Dr Dinesh Aggarwal – Infectious Diseases and Microbiology
Paper: Genomic assessment of quarantine measures to prevent SARS-CoV-2 importation and transmission
Publication: nature communications 2022

Philip Macklin - Histopathology
Paper: ‘Multiparameter persistent homology landscapes identify immune cell spatial patterns in tumors’ Vipond O, Bull J, Macklin P, Tillmann U, Pugh C, Byrne H, Harrington H. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) October 12 2021; 118(41):e2102166118 (joint first author)
Publication: PNAS 12 October 2021

Jospehine McCullagh  - Transfusion Science
Paper: Making every drop count: reducing wastage of a novel blood component for transfusion of trauma patients
Publication: BMJ 30 June 2021

Gold medal

Dr William Hamilton – Medical Microbiology (dual training with Infectious Disease)
Paper: Rapid implementation of SARS-CoV-2 sequencing to invesigate cases of healthcare associated COVID-19: a prospective genomic surveillance study
Publication: Lancet Infec Dis. 2020 - Nov 20 (11): 1263-1271

Silver medals

Dr Lyn Ferguson – Chemical Pathology and Metabolic Medicine
Paper: Psoriatic arthritis is associated with adverse body composition predictive of greater coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes propensity - a cross sectional study
Publication: Rheumatology, 60(4), pp.1858-1862

Dr Mark Ponsford – Clinical Immunology
Paper: The burden of nosocomial covid-19 in Wales: results from a multi-centre retrospective observational study of 2058 hospitalised adults
Publication: Thorax BMJ (18/06/2020)

Dr Meng Wang – Haematology
Paper: Two Aldehyde Clearance Systems are essential to prevent lethal formaldehyde accumulation in mice and humans  
Publication: Molecular Cell

Dr Caroline Young – Cellular Pathology
Paper: Microbiome analysis of more than 2000 NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme samples show the potential to improve screening accuracy  
Publication: American Association for Cancer Research (03/03/2021)

Dr Sheila Lumley – Infectious Disease and Microbiology 
Paper: Antibody Status and Incidence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Health Care Workers
Publication: The New England Journal of Medicine (23/12/2021)

Dr Muge Cevik – Infectious Disease and Virology
Paper: SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV viral load dynamics, duration ofviral shedding, and infectiousness: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Publication: The Lancet Microbe (19/11/2020)