Winners receive complimentary registration to a relevant RMS meeting where they will be presented with their award. They may be invited to produce an article for infocus magazine.
Chris is currently the Flow Cytometry Facility Deputy Manager at The Babraham Institute. In this role he demonstrates expertise in cell sorting, experiment design, data analysis, and flow cytometry analysis.
Previously he ran an efficient and reliable flow cytometric service at EMBL, Rome, at the Epigenetics and Neurobiology Unit. Here, he provided instrumentation, education, and expertise for all flow cytometry and cell sorting needs.
Chris has made, and continues to make, a significant contribution to the discipline of flow cytometry in terms of his academic output, professional affiliations, teaching activities and freeware-based codes for cytometry analysis.
Prior to working in flow cytometry, Christopher was involved in the RAGULA clinical trial at King’s College London and worked as a microbiologist at GSK and Findus UK.
Chris willingly and enthusiastically contributes to the flow cytometry community as an active member of ISAC and is currently a member of the ISAC Emerging Leader programme.
He has established a course to teach R flow cytometry data analysis to non-bioinformaticians, which can be found on the facilities GitHub page. He also sits on workshop forum panels at meetings and conferences and is an active participant in discussions.
Over several years now, Chris has made an immense contribution to flow cytometry. His technical expertise, academic contributions, and role as an educator have been invaluable to his colleagues.
Gert has made, and continues to make, an enormous contribution to the discipline of flow cytometry and imaging cytometry in terms of his academic output, professional affiliations and teaching activities. As Flow Cytometry Manager at VIB, Gert runs an internationally renowned and state of the art research facility that develops and applies many cytometric applications to study various aspects of biology and is actively involved in research projects for allergy, asthma and cancer. Gert has been working with the VIB to develop the role of Flow Manager and establish a business strategy for the facility to provide state of the art services for the long-term benefit of the VIB scientists.
Gert willingly and enthusiastically contributes to the flow cytometry community as an active member of ISAC, is currently on the Emerging Leaders program; and at meetings and conferences he chairs sessions, sits on forum panels and is an active participant in discussions. Gert is specifically keen and actively involved in activities to develop the cytometry community’s skills in automated analysis technics.
Chair of the RMS Flow Cytometry Section, Mr Derek Davies said: “Gert has become a hugely important figure within the Flow community, not only running a world-renowned facility but contributing in so many ways through his academic output, teaching activities, and desire to develop the skills of others. It is our great pleasure to announce him as the recipient of this award.”