ESCI YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD

The European Society for Clinical Investigation will award € 1,000  (+flight+hotel) + € 500 Travel Grant, to two outstanding young investigators who have made an exceptional contribution to basic/translational or clinically oriented biomedical science in Europe.

Applicants should be below the age of 45 on April 30, 2023, and from any nationality, although they must reside in Europe at the date of the application deadline (March 1, 2023).

Eligibility

The award is restricted to biomedical investigators below the age of 45 on April 30, 2023 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 candidate’s 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 the award that the recipient gives a lecture on his/her work at the 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting of ESCI, June 7-9, 2023 and submits a review article to the European Journal of Clinical Investigation summarizing the work for which the award has been given. This review should be submitted one month after the congress, before 30 June 2023.

Selection Criteria

The award recipient will be selected based on the quality of his/her 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 Award or they can be nominated by an individual familiar with the candidate’s work. 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 email attachment to esci@umcutrecht.nl no later than March 1, 2023.

Award procedure

The award will be presented during the Virtual Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation on June 7-9, 2023. The recipient shall give a short scientific talk of 5 min / 2 slides (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 1000 Euro will be transferred to the awardee’s bank account within one week after 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.