Chris Winnard, a PhD student within Biological Sciences, was awarded the prize for best research poster at the National Nurses Nutrition Group (NNNG) annual conference.
Chris’s poster ‘Biofilm formation on neonatal nasogastric tubes’ focuses on his research showing that biofilm structure and development on the neonatal nasogastric tubes is altered depending on the material the tubes are made from and the feeds the infants are receiving. More details can be found here http://www.southampton.ac.uk/ifls/news/2016/08/11-chris-winnard-award.page
Chris, a previous University of Southampton Biomedical Science Masters degree student, is now in his second year of his PhD which is funded by the IfLS, Biological Sciences and Health Sciences and is supported by four supervisors – Dr Sandra Wilks and Professor Bill Keevil, from Biological Sciences; and Dr Sue Green and Professor Mandy Fader, from Health Sciences.