• Question: Have you won an award or prize for your work ?

    Asked by they490tar on 30 Jun 2023.
    • Photo: Hannah Scholes

      Hannah Scholes answered on 30 Jun 2023: last edited 30 Jun 2023 5:37 pm

      I won a prize from the Institute of Biomedical Sciences for the best Biomedical Science Day video last year. It was a little glass trophy. Have a look at my profile for a photo of my excited, happy face and trophy! 😀

      You can watch the video here, if you’d like, and find out a little more about life as a Biomedical Scientist!

    • Photo: Chigozie Onuba

      Chigozie Onuba answered on 30 Jun 2023:

      Yes staff appreciation award

    • Photo: Lena Forsyth

      Lena Forsyth answered on 30 Jun 2023:

      I have not won any awards in my current job. But while at uni I won a few awards for being top of my class (one of them being the Institute of Biomedical Science President’s prize). I also won prizes for best poster for my final year research project and best registration training portfolio (a massive folder full of work from my combined 20 weeks on placement in the hospital labs so I could register as a biomedical Scientist).
      Hard work pays off I guess!

    • Photo: Blair Johnston

      Blair Johnston answered on 1 Jul 2023:

      I don’t think I’ve won any awards for my work (yet!) but I was awarded quite a lot of awards at University and during my research job before I started working in the NHS

    • Photo: Bruno Silvester Lopes

      Bruno Silvester Lopes answered on 1 Jul 2023:

      Yes I have. I will only list a few. My work has helped in developing policies related to food poisoning in EU. I was invited by the ECDC (European CDC) to speak on it and awarded money by them. I was also interviewed by the centre for disease control (CDC), USA to speak on food poisoning. I also published my findings in various scientific journals and have met Nobel prize winners as well in my career. I was also the finalist (runners up) in the outstanding feedback category for teaching awards by the Teesside university where I work. My students kindly nominated me.

    • Photo: Cheryl Williams

      Cheryl Williams answered on 2 Jul 2023: last edited 2 Jul 2023 10:43 am

      I was part of a team that developed an extraction-free method for PCR during the COVID pandemic. Globally, resources for this were running low due to extreme demand. We were nominated for the award by a colleague and I didn’t even know until it was announced that we had won.

      https://www.rcpath.org/about-the-college/awards-and-bursaries/rcpath-achievement-awards-2020.html

    • Photo: Sophie Shaw

      Sophie Shaw answered on 3 Jul 2023:

      Personally I haven’t, but the team I work in won an “Advancing Healthcare Award” for our service called “Wales Infants and childreN’s Genome Service (WINGS)”. This takes all of the DNA from babies and children who are very poorly, and we work out if any changes in the DNA might be making them so ill. This can help them to get the right treatment.

      It was in the BBC news last year – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-61062322

    • Photo: Dan Brunsdon

      Dan Brunsdon answered on 3 Jul 2023:

      I must be a bit of a dingus as no awards or prizes for me so far, though I did get to present some of my work at a large conference in Abuja, Nigeria, which I’m hugely thankful for! Maybe this year I can win the I’m a Scientist prize? #VoteForDan

    • Photo: Kip Heath

      Kip Heath answered on 3 Jul 2023:

      I won ‘Inspiring the Healthcare Science Workforce of the Future’ at the 2023 Advancing Healthcare Awards for my work supporting apprentices and getting scientists to do stand up comedy. I was so surprised that I won that when I got up on the stage I ended up curtsying when they handed it to me.

      And of course my friends caught it on video. Because good friends always will.

    • Photo: Jamie Nash

      Jamie Nash answered on 4 Jul 2023:

      I have won an award by the biomedical excellence for safer transfusion collaborative (international) for my research into storing platelets at a colder temperature for major bleeding patients.

    • Photo: Caroline Addey

      Caroline Addey answered on 4 Jul 2023:

      Nothing important, but I did get a prize in the first year of my biochemistry degree. At work sometimes I have received a reward payment

    • Photo: Paulo Fernandes

      Paulo Fernandes answered on 11 Jul 2023:

      Not me personally, by my company did by all the efforts with helping people with rare diseases.

    • Photo: Clare Morrow

      Clare Morrow answered on 11 Jul 2023:

      Not personally, however the team i work in was presented with an award for the work undertaken in National Quality meetings during the Covid-19 pandemic

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