Awards 2015
Awarded by the Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases (SSI), the Swiss Society for Hospital Hygiene (SSHH) and the Swiss Academic Foundation for Education in Infectious Diseases (SAFE-ID)
3 prizes at the amount of CHF 15'000 each have been awarded during the joint annual meeting in Interlaken.
Basic Science:
The awardee is Roberto F. Speck from the Zurich University Hospital, for the publications “Optimization of Critical Hairpin Features Allows miRNAbased Gene Knockdown Upon Single-copy Transduction" published in the Journal of Virology, and “Lentivector Knockdown of CCR5 in Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells Confers Functional and Persistent HIV-1 Resistance in Humanized Mice“ published in the Journal of Virology.
Clinical Research:
The awardee is Angela Huttner for the VSV Ebola Consortium from the Geneva University Hospital (VEBCON) for „Phase 1 Trials of rVSV Ebola Vaccine in Africa and Europe — Preliminary Report" published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology:
The awardee is Cristina Bellini from the Lausanne University Hospital for „Universal Screening and Decolonization for Control of MRSA in Nursing Homes: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Study" published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.