BCLA outlines research awards schedule

Changes have been made to timings for the BCLA’s research awards – in line with a new biennial schedule for its Clinical Conference and Exhibition.

As a result, the BCLA Medal will be presented during the conference on a biennial basis. The 2015 BCLA Medal Award recipient is Professor Fiona Stapleton of the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Meanwhile, the Irving Fatt Memorial Lecture will be delivered in the non-conference year at the Pioneers & Visionaries Conference in London. Deadlines for entry were set for December 1.

The BCLA also announced that its 2015 Dallos Award recipient is Dr Nicole Carnt, a post-doctoral research optometrist at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, for her lecture on the relationship between environmental sources and the susceptibility and severity of Acanthamoeba keratitis in the UK. A deadline of January 16 next year was set for submissions for the BCLA’s Da Vinci Award.