Prizes and Awards
Grants, Prizes and Awards handed out by the Society
The SIDS Institut Mérieux Young Investigator Award
The Society and Institut Mérieux will be offering the Society of Infectious Disease (Singapore) and Institut Mérieux Young Investigator Award (SIDS-IM YIA) to support the academic work of one young investigator in the domain of antimicrobial resistance in Singapore.
The SIDS Institut Mérieux Young Investigator Award 2018 was awarded to Dr Catherine Ong.
This award was discontinued by Institut Merieux at the end of 2023.
RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT FUND
SIDS offers members a small pilot grant as seed funding for high quality research projects subject to peer review.
For details, please click here
World AMR Awareness Week
The Society collaborates with Antimicrobial Resistance Coordinating Office (AMRCO) to offer a $1000 grant to antimicrobial stewardship programmes in each public hospital to organise educational activities to mark Word AMR Awareness Week.
Prizes are awarded every year to medical students with the best performances in their Infectious Disease Clinical posting. The previous recipients are as follows:
Infectious Disease Book Prize, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
AY 2000/01: Mr Mohamed Zulfikar Rasheed
AY 2001/02: Mr Ng Wei Lik Jared
AY 2002/03: Ms Foo Pei Kee
AY 2003/04: Mr Dennis Chua Yu Kim
AY 2004/05: Miss Ngiam Xin Ying
AY 2005/06: Mr Chew Kwei Yong
AY 2006/07: Mr Lum Hon Wai, Lionel
AY 2007/08: Mr Yeow Yu Yi
AY 2008/09: Mr Lin Junhao, Ray
AY 2009/10: Mr Ho Quan Yao
AY 2010/11: Ms Teh Yii Ean
AY 2011/12: Mr Daniel Chan Wei Keong
AY 2012/13: Ms Stephanie Saw Pei Li
AY 2013/14: Mr Sean Ong Wei Xiang
AY 2014/15: Mr Samuel Lim Jun Ming
AY 2015/2016: Mr Kennedy Ng Yao Yi
AY 2016/2017: Mr Tan Hwee Yong
AY 2017/2018: Ms Kee Xiang Lee Jamie
AY 2018/2019: Mr Jonathan Kit Ray Chet
AY 2019/2020: The selection examinations for the Book Prize were not conducted this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
AY 2020/2021: Ms Lam Yin Lin, Valerie
AY 2021/2022: Mr Ho Yi Jie
AY 2022/2023: Ms Ong Yun Ting
Society of Infectious Disease (Singapore) Prize, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
AY 2022/2023: Mr Klay Lim Puay Khim
Society of Infectious Disease (Singapore) Prize, Duke-NUS Medical School
AY 2022/2023: Mr Kwek Yong En, Samuel
The Monteiro Lecture
The Monteiro Lecture was established in 2011 in collaboration with the Chapter of Infectious Diseases Physicians, College of Physicians, Academy of Medicine, Singapore, to commemorate Professor ES Monteiro, who was a pioneer in infectious diseases and his son, Dr Edmund Monteiro, who worked at the Middleton Hospital which became the current Communicable Disease Centre, from 1965 to 1993.
The Monteiro lectureship is awarded to distinguished persons with significant work in Singapore in the field of Infectious Diseases or related fields of Microbiology, Epidemiology and Public Health.
The bi-ennial Monteiro lectureship has been awarded to the following individuals:
2012: Dr David Allen
2014: A/Professor Hsu Li Yang
2016: Professor Goh Kee Tai
2018: A/Prof Koh Tse Hsien
2020: Professor Tan Ban Hock
2022: A/Prof Brenda Ang