Awards 2012
Three prizes at the amount of CHF 15'000 each have been awarded during the joint annual meeting.
Basic Science:
The awardee is Ambre Jousselin for her work "The Posttranslocational Chaperone Lipoprotein PrsA Is Involved in both Glycopeptide and Oxacillin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus" published in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, July 2012 vol. 56 no. 7 3629-3640 by Ambre Jousselin, Adriana Renzoni, Diego O. Andrey, Antoinette Monod, Daniel P. Lew and William L. Kelley from the Service of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital and Medical School of Geneva, Switzerland
Clinical Research:
The awardee is Silvana Rampini for her work "Broad-Range 16S rRNA Gene Polymerase Chain Reaction for Diagnosis of Culture-Negative Bacterial Infections" published in Clinical Infectious Diseases 2011 Dec;53(12):1245-51 by Silvana K. Rampini, Guido V. Bloemberg, Peter M. Keller, Andrea C. Büchler, Günter Dollenmaier, Roberto F. Speck, and Erik C. Böttger from the Division of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Zurich, and Institute of Medical Microbiology, Zurich University; Institute for Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Cantonal Hospital St Gallen, and Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, Zurich University Hospital, Switzerland
Epidemiological Research:
The awardee is Markus Hilty for his work "Nasopharyngeal Microbiota in Infants With Acute Otitis Media" published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases 2012 Apr 1;205(7):1048-55 by Markus Hilty, Weihong Qi, Silvio D. Brugger, Laurence Frei, Philipp Agyeman, Pascal M. Frey, Suzanne Aebi and Kathrin Muhlemann from the Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Berne; and Functional Genomics Center, Zurich; and Department of Pediatrics and Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital, Berne, Switzerland