Best presentation awards for CIDRI-Africa investigators

Dr Charlotte Schutz received the prize for best oral presentation (clinical research) at the 43^rd Annual Dept. Medicine Research Day 4-5 October. The title of her talk was: “Biomarkers associated with high early mortality in hospitalized patients with HIV-associated tuberculosis”.

This study forms part of her PhD thesis and is nested within a larger study on HIV-associated tuberculosis conducted at Khayelitsha Hospital by Professor Graeme Meintjes from CIDRI-Africa, the IDM and Department of Medicine, funded by the Wellcome Trust. Dr Schutz joined the IDM and Dept. Medicine as a Research Medical Officer in 2011, and after completing her Masters in Public Health in 2012, she registered for a Doctoral degree in 2015. She is the recipient of a prestigious SA Medical Research Council National Health Scholars Programme award that supports her during the period of her doctoral work.

 

 

 

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Dr David Barr received best presentation at the Annual Scientific Meeting, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome research group, Blantyre, 1-4 October. His talk was entitled: “HIV-associated blood-stream disseminated tuberculosis among inpatients: rapid diagnostics and clinical phenotype”.

Dr Barr is an infectious diseases registrar in the West of Scotland Deanery & received a Wellcome Trust Liverpool-Glasgow Centre for Global Health Research Clinical PhD fellowship, to conduct research in the field of HIV-associated tuberculosis at Khayelitsha Hospital for his PhD. He is supervised by Professor David Lalloo and Dr Gerry Davies (University of Liverpool) and Professor Graeme Meintjes.