Scientific excellence wins the Gaddie Award

Congratulations to this year’s winner of the Gaddie Award, Alexandra Matthews.  

The Robert Gaddie Prize is awarded for the best poster and presentation held annually at the West Midlands region AGM and Scientific Meeting. 

LabMed is proud to announce Alexandra Matthews as this year’s winner with her fantastic presentation on improving the measurement of thyroglobulin using mass spectrometry. 
 

A little bit about Alexandra Matthews 

Alexandra Matthews is a clinical scientist in specialist biochemistry at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. Her interests lie within using clinical proteomics to expand mass spectrometry-based protein analysis capabilities. This includes concentrating on several important hormones as the only current analytical options are unsatisfactory. 
 

What is the Gaddie Award? 

The Gaddie Prize awards an annual winner for the best scientific poster, paper or presentation in the West Midlands region. 

For nearly 40 years, Robert Gaddie was an outstanding figure in British clinical biochemistry, pioneering the practice and teaching of the subject and helping to establish the status of the non-medical biochemist. From 1941 to 1972 he was head of the Department of Clinical Biochemistry at the General Hospital, Birmingham and honorary senior clinical lecturer in the University of Birmingham. He died in 1984 at the age of 77. With the help of a generous donation from his widow, Jean, the West Midlands region of the then Association of Clinical Biochemists established the Robert Gaddie Memorial Fund shortly after his death to perpetuate the memory of his lifetime's dedication to clinical biochemistry. 

The fund is dedicated to the advancement of scientific knowledge and education and to promote scientific excellence, with particular reference to clinical biochemistry in the West Midlands. 
 

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