Personal Statement
Dr Boyd is a Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology and an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. Her clinical work is carried out for patients with infections at St George’s Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in London. She has research interests in antimicrobial pharmacology, multidrug-resistant Gram-negative pathogens and drug development, and holds a PhD in Pharmacology having been awarded a UKRI/RCUK Innovation Fellowship through the North West England MRC Fellowship Scheme in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.

Research Overview
Dr Boyd's PhD involved the pre-clinical evaluation of antimicrobials across a range of models of infection and the construction of mathematical models that describe pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic (PK-PD) relationships. In addition, she used RT-qPCR and WGS to explore the emergence of drug resistance under clinically relevant drug exposures. She also used high resolution MALDI Mass Spectrometry Imaging to explore drug penetration in the lung. This research spanned a collaboration between the Centre for Antimicrobial Pharmacodynamics (CAP) at the University of Liverpool, Hoffman la Roche and the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) for healthcare associated infection and antimicrobial resistance at Imperial College London. Her current research builds upon this in addition to other interests in antimicrobial susceptibility testing and diagnostics, antimicrobial stewardship including online access to antimicrobial medicines, and the contribution of human conflict to the development of antimicrobial resistance and multidrug-resistant infections.