OW Chris Moxon (1996) has received the 2017 Young Investigator Award for Clinical Research at the 35th annual meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases.

Chris is a Clinical Lecturer in Paediatrics at the University of Liverpool and a Specialist Registrar in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. Having obtained his medical degree from St. Bartholomew’s the Royal London in 2003, Chris began a BSc in Developmental Neurobiology at King’s College London. It was during his time at KCL that Chris became interested in tropical diseases, with a particular attentiveness to malaria, leading him to undertake voluntary work on the Thai-Burmese border.

He later became a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics, and in 2008 he was awarded a Wellcome Trust PhD fellowship to carry out research on cerebral malaria in Malawian children at the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Clinical Research Programme.

Upon returning to Liverpool, Chris was appointed as a Clinical Lecturer at the University. His recent work has largely focused on investigating the mechanisms by which the malaria parasite causes blood barrier breakdown.