Marie Smedley, a PhD Candidate at the University of Stirling’s Institute of Aquaculture in Scotland, is the winner of this year’s Novartis Animal Health (NAH) Young Scientist Award.

Presented during the Aquaculture UK 2014 event in Aviemore, her research on the use of nutrition as a tool to improve the performance in triploid Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in freshwater and seawater production was selected for top recognition by an independent panel of expert industry judges.

For her prize, NAH will host Ms Smedley on a visit to the NAH Aqua Research & Development Center on Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada later in the year. While there, she will meet with leading NAH scientists to learn more about fish vaccines, novel pharmaceutical developments and revolutionary new technologies in fish health. Her trip will also include a visit to the Atlantic Veterinary College at the University of PEI and a meeting with Mark Fast, the Novartis Research Chair in Fish Health at the College.

“It’s an honour to be selected as the winner of Novartis Animal Health Aqua’s Young Scientist Award,” says Marie. “Presenting my research to industry experts is very rewarding, and I’m really looking forward to exchanging ideas with the NAH scientists at their Canadian Aqua R&D facility.”

In recognition of the high scientific level and quality of the presentations, NAH also awarded a second place prize to Rodrigo Belmonte da Silva from the Scottish Fish Immunology Research Centre, School of Biological Sciences at Aberdeen University for his presentation, “Saprolegnia: a parasite specialized in overcoming the fish immune system.”

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