Dr. Samuel Kariuki, a senior director at Kenya Medical
Research Institute (KEMRI) and Chief Research Scientist and Head of Department,
Centre of the Microbiology Research has bagged the Royal Society Pfizer Award
2012 for his outstanding research in invasive Non-Typhoidal Salmonella (NTS)
infections in Kenya.
The decorated Kenyan scientist will walk away with a cash
reward of £60,000 (Sh8.22million) for his research work and a further £5,000
(Sh685,000) as a personal award at a ceremony slated for 31st October
at the Royal Society in London.
The annual award is given to scientists working in the biological
sciences to promote capacity-building in Africa.
Another scientist honored was Dr. Martin Ota who
received the Royal Society Pfizer Exceptional Merit Award in 2012 for his
work into the relationship of pneumococcal protein antibody levels to
nasopharyngeal carriage of pneumococci in early infancy.
Samuel Karuiki Profile
Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of
Nairobi in 1989
MSc in Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Nairobi in
1991
PhD (Tropical
Medicine), University of Liverpool in 1997
As a Postdoctoral fellow of the Wellcome Trust, he
researched on the epidemiology and genetic characterization of invasive
Non-Typhoidal Salmonella (NTS).
Sanger International Fellow at the Wellcome Trust Sanger
Institute
Board Member, Association for Prudent Use of Antibiotics
(APUA) and Interim Chair for the Kenya Chapter
Ambassador of the American Society for Microbiology, East
African Region
Photo Courtesy of kemri-wellcome.org
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