Claire S. Laxton, PhD.

Postdoctoral Associate in the Iwasaki Lab

Grants and Awards


Awards

  • Best short talk: Silver Award, Yale Postdoctoral Symposium (2024) 
  • STEM for Britain Bronze Award (Biological & Biomedical Sciences), UK Parliamentary and Scientific Committee (2022)
  • Attendee Choice Prize for best presentation in my year at the annual Wellcome Trust AAMR DTP retreat (2018)
  • BSc Pharmacology Prize for exceptional undergraduate performance, British Pharmacological Society (2017)
  • R. B. Wild Prize for Top Student in Pharmacology, University of Manchester (2017)
  • Pharmacology Outstanding Performance Award for top 2nd year grade, University of Manchester (2016)

Scholarships 

  • Halloran scholarship: Scholarship to attend SISMID summer school, Emory University, USA, July 2024. 
  • SCELSE scholarship: Full scholarship to attend SCELSE summer school, NTU, Singapore, July 2019. 
  • Wellcome Trust PhD studentship: Fully funded PhD studentship on the AAMR 1+3 Doctoral Training Programme (2017). 

Travel grants 

  • Microbiology Society Travel Grant: awarded to present at ISPDD-13, Mar 2024. 
  • Microbiology Society Travel Grant and University of Nottingham Researcher Academy prize: awarded to present at EuroBioFilms, August 2022. 
  • University of Manchester conference grant: Awarded to present at ISPPD-10, June 2016.