Global PhD success for Drs Walmsley and Hammond
On 8 December, Clinical Teaching Fellow Dr Phillip Walmlsey and Lecturer Dr Robert Hammond were awarded a Global PhD scholarship with two collaborators from the University of Bonn! Dr Walmlsey and Dr Hammond will co-supervise a PhD student with Prof. Dr. Dieter C. Wirtz and Dr Frank A. Schildberg.
This project will investigate the use of SLIC as a point-of-care diagnostic test for synovial samples from joint infections involving joints in the lower limb. The student will use the SLIC machine to analyse fresh and frozen archival synovial fluid samples to determine if they can be successfully detected and to run antibiotic sensitivity testing of commonly used antibiotics using a previously generated robust, site-specific SOP for both fresh and frozen samples. This would both validate the methodology robustly and prove that it can be completed rapidly and reproducibly. They will then test fluid from macerated infected tissue and sonicated fluid from explanted infected hip and knee prosthesis.