Garrod Medal

The Garrod Medal is the highest honour afforded by the Society. The Garrod Lecture was inaugurated in 1982, in honour of L P Garrod (1896-1979), whose writing and influence on antimicrobial chemotherapy was so important in the development of the discipline and whose practical clinical approach based on meticulous laboratory work seemed to suit the ethos of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Council awards this honour to individuals who are an international authority in the field of antimicrobial chemotherapy. The recipient delivers a lecture of their choosing at the Society Annual Spring Meeting. The Garrod Medal itself is from a limited series struck in silver by the Birmingham Mint in 1986.

GARROD MEDALLISTS


1982
Professor Sir Mark Richmond
ß-Lactamases: are they really important?

1983
Professor F W O’Grady
Strategies for potentiating chemotherapy in severe sepsis: some experimental pointers
Published: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (1984) 13, 535-46

1984
Professor Sir Charles Stuart-Harris
Strategies of antiviral chemotherapy
Published: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 1985 Apr;15(4):387-97

1985
Professor N Datta
Antidotes of bacteria to antibacterial drugs

1986
Professor Sir Edward P Abraham
ß-Lactamase antibiotics: motivation, science and luck in their past and future

1987
Dr G N Rolinson
The influence of 6-aminopenicillanic acid on antibiotic development
Published: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (1988) 22, 5-14

1988
Professor H P Lambert
Unresolved problems in meningitis
Published: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (1989) 24, 97-102

1989
Professor W Brumfitt
Progress in understanding urinary infection
Published: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (1991) 27, 9-22

1990
Professor R J Moellering Jr
The enterococcus: a classic example of the impact of antimicrobial resistance on therapeutic options
Published: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (1991) 28, 1-12

1991
Professor D A Mitchison
Understanding the chemotherapy of tuberculosis - current problems
Published: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (1992) 29, 477-93

1992
Professor L S Young
Mycobacterial disease in the 1990s
Published: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (1993) 32, 179-94

1993
Professor J D Williams
Concordant pharmacodynamics in man and microbe
Published: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (1995) 35, 721-37

1994
Professor P Courvalin
Evasion of antibiotic action by bacteria
Published: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (1996) 37, 855-69

1995
Professor J Grosset
The future of chemotherapy for tuberculosis

1996
Dr P Reynolds
Glycopeptide resistance and Staphylococcus aureus

1997
Professor I Phillips
The subtleties of antibiotic resistance
Published: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Vol 42, 5-12

1998
Dr V Andriole
Current and future antifungal therapy: new targets for antifungal agents
Published:Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (1999) 44, 151-162

1999

Professor Alasdair Geddes
Infection in the 21st Century - and possible implications for therapy
Published: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2000) 46, 873-877

2000

Professor Stuart B Levy
Factors impacting on the problem of antibiotic resistance
Published: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2002) 49, 25-30

2001
Professor Paul Griffiths
Treatment of cytomegalovirus infection
Published: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2002) 49, 243-253

2002
Professor William A Craig
Pharmacodynamics of Antimicrobials: Past and Present
Not published

2003
Professor Richard Wise
The relentless rise of resistance?
Published: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2004) 54(2), 306-310

2004
Professor Bernd Wiedemann
Antibiotic resistance, experienced evolution
To be published

 

2005

Professor David Reeves

Changes in patient access to antibiotics: for better or worse

Published: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2007) 59: 333-341