Garrod Lecture and Medal

The Garrod Lecture and Medal is an award presented by the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. It was established in 1982 and named for L. P. Garrod. The medal is made of silver by the Birmingham Mint. The recipient of the award is considered by the society as having international authority in the field of antimicrobial chemotherapy. They are invited to deliver an accompanying lecture and receive honorary membership of the Society.

Recipients

Year	Recipient	Lecture title
1982	Sir Mark Richmond	β-Lactamases: are they really important?
1983	F W O'Grady	Strategies for potentiating chemotherapy in severe sepsis: some experimental pointers.
1984	Sir Charles Stuart-Harris	Strategies of antiviral chemotherapy.
1985	Naomi Datta	Antidotes of bacteria to antibacterial drugs
1986	Sir Edward P Abraham	β-Lactamase antibiotics: motivation, science and luck in their past and future
1987	George N. Rolinson	The influence of 6-aminopenicillanic acid on antibiotic development.
1990	Robert C. Moellering Jr	The enterococcus: a classic example of the impact of antimicrobial resistance on therapeutic options.
1991	Denis Mitchison	Understanding the chemotherapy of tuberculosis - current problems.
1999	Alasdair Geddes	Infection in the 21st Century - and possible implications for therapy.
2009	Sir Richard Sykes	The evolution of antimicrobial resistance: a Darwinian perspective
2011	Brian Spratt	My 40 years - from penicillin-binding proteins to molecular epidemiology. Given during the BSAC 40th anniversary scientific Spring Meeting
2012	Ian Chopra	Discovery of anti-bacterial drugs in the twenty-first century
2016	John E. McGowan Jr	The role of the healthcare epidemiologist in antimicrobial chemotherapy—a view from the USA
2017	Peter Hawkey	Genes, guts and globalization
2018	David Livermore	The Black Swans of Resistance
2019	Laura Piddock	MDR efflux in Gram-negative bacteria—how understanding resistance led to a new tool for drug discovery