OW Wins Award for Clinical Research
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.
