2011 ESCI Award for Excellence in Basic/Translational Research

and

2011 ESCI Award for Excellence in Clinical Research

10,000 Euro each
to be presented during the 45th Annual Scientific Meeting of ESCI
deadline electronic applications/nominations: 15 September 2010

The European Society for Clinical Investigation (ESCI) will grant two awards of 10,000 Euro each to outstanding young investigators who have made an exceptional contribution to clinically oriented biomedical research in Europe. One award will be given for excellence in clinically oriented basic or translational (i. e. non-clinical) research whereas the other award will be given for excellence in clinical research. The deadline for application/nomination for both awards is 15 September 2010.

 

Eligibility
The awards are restricted to biomedical investigators below the age of 45 on 30 April 2011 who can be of any nationality but must reside in Europe at the date of the application/nomination deadline. ESCI may request formal evidence of this before announcing the award recipient’s name. The candidates’ work must have had a clear relevance to the understanding, diagnosis or treatment of human disease and a significant part of it must have been performed in Europe. It is the condition of each award that the recipient gives a lecture on his/her work at the 2011 Annual Scientific Meeting of ESCI on Friday, 15 April 2011 in Crete, Greece, and submits a review article to the European Journal of Clinical Investigation summarizing the work for which the award has been given.

 

Selection criteria
The award recipients will be selected based on the quality of their publication record during the last ten years. The selection will be made by the ESCI Council, primarily focusing on the candidate’s ten most important first- or last-author primary research papers and their relevance to human disease. Priority will be given to publications describing research performed in Europe.

 

Instructions and deadlines
Scientists can either apply themselves for the ESCI Awards or they can be nominated by an individual familiar with the candidate’s work. The same individual can apply for both awards but the two awards will be given to different individuals. The completed application/nomination form along with the candidate’s CV and full publication list should be combined into a single PDF file and sent as an e-mail attachment to esci@umcutrecht.nl no later than 15 September 2010.

 

Award procedure
The awards will be presented during the Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation on 15 April 2011 in Crete, Greece. The recipients shall give a scientific talk at the meeting (directly after the award ceremony) and provide a review manuscript for publication in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation, summarizing the work for which the award has been given. The amount of 10,000 Euro will be transferred to the awardee’s bank account within one week after the award lecture has been given and the review manuscript has been received.

Contact information
Please contact the ESCI Central Office at esci@umcutrecht.nl if there are any further questions or concerns.

 

Previous winners

2010 Reuven Agami 1993 Thomas F Lüschel;
  I. Sadaf Faroogi 1992 Roberto Montesano
2009 Josef M Penninger 1991 René RP de Vries
2008 László Nagy 1990 Douglas Roland Higgs
2007 John PA Ioannidis 1989 Daniel P Lew
2006 Michael Roden 1988 Anothony W Segal
2005 Lars Fugger 1987 Gian Franco Bottazzo
2004 Allan Flyybjerg 1986 Lars-Inge Larsson
2003 Raphael Scharfmann 1985 Rolf M Zinkernagel
2002 Huge Edward Montgomery 1984 Pierre Corvol & J Ménard
2001 Hans C Clevers 1983 Fritz R Bühler
2000 Seppo Ylä=Jerttuala 1982 GG Rousseau
1999 Guido Poli 1981 Timothy J Peters
1998 Anthony HV Schapira 1980 Alberto Malliani
1997 Irene Virgolini 1979 Jens F Rehfeld
1996 Paolo Golino 1978 Lelio Orci
1995 Peter Valent 1977 David JH Brock
1994 Bo Angelin 1976 Jean-François Bach