Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 IoO Awards

Earlier today, following a fascinating annual award lecture given by Prof Justine Smith from Flinders University, Institute Director Prof Andrew Dick and Prof Alison Hardcastle announced the winners of this year's IoO awards.

We received many nominations to recognise and celebrate academic, teaching and collegiality activities from staff and students who have made significant contributions to the Institute in the last year.

The award categories are: research excellence, teaching, and collegiality. 

Also, in collaboration with Moorfields BRC, this year we launched the Public and Patient Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) award to recognise excellent PPIE in research.

Research Excellence award

Winner:
Sylvia Schroeder
For her paper: "Arousal modulates retinal output", publihshed in Neuron 

Runners-up:
Reena Chopra 
For her article: "Predicting conversion to wet age-related macular degeneration using deep learning", published in Nature Medicine

Collegiality award

Winners:
Facilities Management Team:
Lloyd Springer
Robbie (full name: Adu Gyamfi Brobbey)
Dennis Lincoln
George Bradley
Mervyn Davies
Shaun Fagan

Directors' award for exceptional citizenship

Winner:
Laboratory Facilitation Team:
Abi Li
Naheed Kanuga
Claire Cox
Gopinath Damodaran
James Wyles
Jill Cowing

Teaching excellence award

Winner:
Omar Mahroo

NIHR Moorfields BRC Public and Patient Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) award

Winners:
Louca-Mai Brady, Annegret Dahlmann-Noor and Jacq Miller for setting up the Eye-YPAG (young persons’ advisory group for eye and vision research) at Moorfields Eye Hospital

Joint runners-up:
Omar Mahoo
Victoria Tovell