A great honour to win this award 🏆 and deliver the prize lecture this morning. Sincere thanks to the @microbiologysociety.org & particularly those who very kindly nominated me…and of course to those who tolerated my talk this morning about how to train your (oncolytic) virus 🦠!
Alan Parker
Translational Microbiology Prize Lecture winner, Professor Alan Parker, hosts their lecture on 'Oncolytic virotherapies representing a transformative approach to cancer treatment' in the Auditorium at 09:00.
Read more about their work: https://microb.io/4shI43S
#Microbio26
Ahead of the 2026 Translational Prize Lecture, Shadia Khandaker interviewed Professor Alan to learn more about his career and how it feels to win a Microbiology Society prize.