Awards 2014
3 prizes at the amount of CHF 15'000 each have been awarded during the joint annual meeting in Aarau.
Basic Science:
The awardee is Violeta Spaniol for hera work „RNA-Seq-Based Analysis of the Physiologic Cold Shock-Induced Changes in Moraxella catarrhalis Gene Expression" published July 2, 2013, in PLoS ONE by Violeta Spaniol, Stefan Wyder and Christoph Aebi from the Institute for Infectious Diseases, and the Department of Clinical Research and Department of Paediatrics, Inselspital, Bern University, Switzerland.
Clinical Research:
The awardee is Valérie D'Acremont for her work „Beyond Malaria — Causes of Fever in Outpatient Tanzanian Children" published February 27, 2014 in The New England Journal of Medicine by Valérie D'Acremont, Mary Kilowoko, Esther Kyungu, Sister Philipina, Willy Sangu, Judith Kahama-Maro, Christian Lengeler, Pascal Cherpillod, Laurent Kaiser, and Blaise Genton, from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and University of Basel, University and University Hospital of Lausanne, University and University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland; the City Medical Office of Health, Amana Hospital, Dar es Salaam City Council, Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam and Ifakara and St. Francis Hospital, Ifakara Tanzania.
Epidemiologic Research:
The awardee is Benedikt Huttner for his work „Decolonization of intestinal carriage of extended-spectrum b-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae with oral colistin and neomycin: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial" published May 29, 2013 in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy by Benedikt Huttner, Thomas Haustein, Ilker Uckay, Gesuele Renzi, Andrew Stewardson, Daniele Schaerrer, Americo Agostinho, Antoine Andremont, Jacques Schrenzel, Didier Pittet and Stephan Harbarth from the Geneva University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland & Hopitaux de Paris and University Paris-Diderot Medical School, Paris, France.