Previous winners of the Research Medal Awards

Gold medal

Dr Yisu Gu – Clinical haematology
Paper: Gu Y, Bartolomé-Casado R, Xu C, Bertocchi A, Janney A, Heuberger C. Immune microniches shape intestinal T_reg function. Nature 2024;628:854–862.
Publication: Nature; 2024

Silver medals

Dr Mehreen Datoo – Infectious diseases and microbiology
Paper: Datoo MS, Dicko A, Tinto H, Ouédraogo J-B, Hamaluba M, Olotu A. Safety and efficacy of malaria vaccine candidate R21/Matrix-M in African children: a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, phase 3 trial. Lancet 2024;403:533–544.
Publication: Lancet; 2024

Dr Jordan Skittrall – Medical virology and infectious diseases
Paper: Beniston E, Skittrall JP. Locations and structures of influenza A virus packaging-associated signals and other functional elements via an in silico pipeline for predicting constrained features in RNA viruses. PLoS Comput Biol 2024;20:e1012009.
Publication: PLoS Computational Biology; 2024

Gold medal

Mohsin Badat – Haematology
Paper: Badat M, Ejaz A, Hua P, Rice S, Zhang W, Hentges LD et al. Direct correction of haemoglobin E β-thalassaemia using base editors. Nat Commun 2023;14:2238.
Publication: Nature Communication; 2023

Silver medal

Joseph Westaby – Histopathology
Paper: Westaby J, Dalle-Carbonare C, Ster IC, Sheppard MN. Obesity cardiomyopathy in sudden cardiac death: a distinct entity? A comparative study. JACC Adv 2023;2:100414.
Publication: JACC Advances; 2023 

Gold medal

Dr Fergus Hamilton – Medical microbiology and infectious disease
Paper: Hamilton FW, Gregson FKA, Arnold DT, Sheikh S, Ward K, Brown J et al. Aerosol emission from the respiratory tract: an analysis of aerosol generation from oxygen delivery systems. Thorax 2022;77:276–282.
Publication: Thorax Open Access; November 2021

Silver medals

Charles Agbuduwe – Haematology
Paper: Ferry GM, Agbuduwe C, Forrester M, Dunlop S, Chester K, Fisher J et al. A Simple and Robust Single-Step Method for CAR-Vδ1 γδT Cell Expansion and Transduction for Cancer Immunotherapy. Front Immunol 2022;13:863155.
Publication: Frontiers in Immunology; 2022 

Dr Dinesh Aggarwal – Infectious diseases and microbiology
Paper: Aggarwal D, Page AJ, Schaefer U, Savva GM, Myers R, Volz E et al. Genomic assessment of quarantine measures to prevent SARS-CoV-2 importation and transmission. Nat Commun 2022;13:1012.
Publication: Nature Communications; 2022

Philip Macklin – Histopathology
Paper: Vipond O, Bull J, Macklin P, Tillmann U, Pugh C, Byrne H et al. Multiparameter persistent homology landscapes identify immune cell spatial patterns in tumors. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (PNAS) 2021;118:e2102166118.
Publication: PNAS; 2021

Jospehine McCullagh – Transfusion science
Paper: McCullagh J, Proudlove N, Tucker H, Davies J, Edmondson D, Lancut J. Making every drop count: reducing wastage of a novel blood component for transfusion of trauma patients. BMJ Open Qual 2021;10:e001396.
Publication: BMJ; 2021

Gold medal

Dr William Hamilton – Medical microbiology (dual training with infectious disease)
Paper: Meredith LW, Hamilton WL, Warne B, Houldcroft CJ, Hosmillo M, Jahun AS et al. Rapid implementation of SARS-CoV-2 sequencing to invesigate cases of healthcare associated COVID-19: a prospective genomic surveillance study. Lancet Infect Dis 2020;20:1263–1271.
Publication: Lancet Infec Dis; 2020

Silver medals

Dr Lyn Ferguson – Chemical pathology and metabolic medicine
Paper: Ferguson LD, Linge L, Leinhard OD, Woodward R, Hall Barrientos P, Roditi G et al. Psoriatic arthritis is associated with adverse body composition predictive of greater coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes propensity – a cross sectional study. Rheumatology 2021; 60:1858–1862.
Publication: Rheumatology; 2021

Dr Mark Ponsford – Clinical immunology
Paper: Ponsford MJ, Jefferies R, Davies C, Farewell D, Humphreys IR, Jolles S et al. The burden of nosocomial COVID-19 in Wales: results from a multi-centre retrospective observational study of 2058 hospitalised adults. Thorax 2021; 76:1246–1249.
Publication: Thorax; 2021

Dr Meng Wang – Haematology
Paper: Dingler FA, Wang M, Mu A, Millington CL, Oberbeck N, Watcham S et al. Two aldehyde clearance systems are essential to prevent lethal formaldehyde accumulation in mice and humans. Mol Cell 2020; 80:996–1012.  
Publication: Molecular Cell; 2020

Dr Caroline Young – Cellular pathology
Paper: Young C, Wood HM, Fuentes Balaguer A, Bottomley D, Gallop N, Wilkinson L et al. Microbiome analysis of more than 2000 NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme samples show the potential to improve screening accuracy. Clin Cancer Res 2021;27:2246–2254.
Publication: American Association for Cancer Research; 2021

Dr Sheila Lumley – Infectious disease and microbiology 
Paper: Lumley SF, O'Donnell D, Stoesser NE, Matthews PC, Howarth A, Hatch SB et al. Antibody status and incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in health care workers. N Engl J Med 2021 384:533–540.
Publication: The New England Journal of Medicine; 2021

Dr Muge Cevik – Infectious disease and virology
Paper: Cevik M, Tate M, Lloyd O, Maraolo AE, Schafers J, Ho A. SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV viral load dynamics, duration ofviral shedding, and infectiousness: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Microbe 2021;2:e13–e22.
Publication: The Lancet Microbe; 2020