Lisa Wood, wins the 2004 Bayer Award for an oral presentation made during this year's ACB Focus Meeting at the ICC, Birmingham
Lisa Wood, clinical biochemist from the department of medical biochemistry at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, has received the 2004 Bayer Award for an oral presentation she made during this year's ACB Focus Meeting at the ICC, Birmingham. Wood 's winning presentation, entitled 'Exonic deletions in an eight year old boy with erythropoietic protoporphyria', was one of five made during an afternoon session at the meeting, chaired by the ACB's Janet Smith.
It was subsequently judged most worthy of winning the prestigious Bayer Award which is sponsored by the company on an annual basis. The award, comprising an engraved silver medallion and cheque, was presented to Wood by Bayer Diagnostics' senior territory manager for chemistry, immunoassay and automation, Mark Weaver, in the automation laboratory area of her workplace at Cardiff. Among the judging criteria for the Bayer Award is a requirement that the winning presentation should provide evidence of original science that is relevant to clinical biochemistry.
Originality and innovation are qualities which have always been much in evidence at Cardiff where the chemiluminescence technology used in Bayer Diagnostics's Advia Centaur immunoassay system was originally developed by the University's Professor Tony Campbell, Ian Weeks and Stuart Woodhead.
Fittingly, the Department of Medical Biochemistry at the University Hospital took delivery of the 100th Advia Centaur system to be sold in the UK in 2003.
