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The Garrod Lecture and Medal is an award presented by the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. It was established in 1982 and named for L. P. Garrod. The medal is made of silver by the Birmingham Mint. The recipient of the award is considered by the society as having international authority in the field of antimicrobial chemotherapy. They are invited to deliver an accompanying lecture and receive honorary membership of the Society.[1][2]

Recipients

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Awards
Year Recipient Lecture title
1982 Sir Mark Richmond β-Lactamases: are they really important?
1983 F W O'Grady Strategies for potentiating chemotherapy in severe sepsis: some experimental pointers.
1984 Sir Charles Stuart-Harris Strategies of antiviral chemotherapy.
1985 Naomi Datta Antidotes of bacteria to antibacterial drugs
1986 Sir Edward P Abraham β-Lactamase antibiotics: motivation, science and luck in their past and future
1987 George N. Rolinson[3] The influence of 6-aminopenicillanic acid on antibiotic development.
1990 Robert C. Moellering Jr[4][5] The enterococcus: a classic example of the impact of antimicrobial resistance on therapeutic options.
1991 Denis Mitchison Understanding the chemotherapy of tuberculosis - current problems.
1999 Alasdair Geddes Infection in the 21st Century - and possible implications for therapy.
2009 Sir Richard Sykes The evolution of antimicrobial resistance: a Darwinian perspective
2011 Brian Spratt[6] My 40 years - from penicillin-binding proteins to molecular epidemiology. Given during the BSAC 40th anniversary scientific Spring Meeting
2012 Ian Chopra[7] Discovery of anti-bacterial drugs in the twenty-first century
2016 John E. McGowan Jr[8] The role of the healthcare epidemiologist in antimicrobial chemotherapy—a view from the USA
2017 Peter Hawkey[9] Genes, guts and globalization
2018 David Livermore The Black Swans of Resistance
2019 Laura Piddock MDR efflux in Gram-negative bacteria—how understanding resistance led to a new tool for drug discovery

References

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  1. ^ "Garrod Lecture & Medal". The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2021. Archived from the original on 2 November 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  2. ^ Batten, Jack (1997). Awards, Honors & Prizes: International and Foreign 1998. Gale / Cengage Learning. p. 133. ISBN 978-0-7876-1349-5.
  3. ^ Geddes, Alasdair M. (July 2017). "Dr George N. Rolinson, 16 March 1926–8 December 2016". Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 72 (7): 1847. doi:10.1093/jac/dkx075.
  4. ^ Rice, Louis B.; Eliopoulos, George M.; Jacoby, George A. (July 2014). "In Memoriam: Robert C. Moellering, Jr". Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 58 (7): 3583–3584. doi:10.1128/AAC.03199-14. ISSN 0066-4804. PMC 4068561. PMID 24798286.
  5. ^ Saag, Michael S. (2014). Updates in HIV and AIDS: Part I, An Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics. Philadelphia: Elsevier. p. xiv. ISBN 978-0-323-32328-4.
  6. ^ "Honours and Memberships - Professor Brian G Spratt FRS". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
  7. ^ "Ian Chopra | School of Molecular and Cellular Biology | University of Leeds". biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
  8. ^ "2017 Commencement". www.sph.emory.edu. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  9. ^ "Birmingham researchers awarded the Garrod Medal and the Gilbert Blane Medal". University of Birmingham. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
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