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ESCI Young Investigator Award

The European Society for Clinical Investigation (ESCI) will award 1500 Euro plus invitation (travel/hotel/registration paid) to the ESCI ASM, to two outstanding young investigators who has made an exceptional contribution to basic/translational or clinically oriented biomedical science in Europe.

60th Annual Scientific Meeting of ESCI, 3-5 June,  in Lisbon, Portugal.

Deadline electronic applications/nominations : March 15, 2026

Ana Raquel Esteves

Vivak Parkash

SUBMIT APPLICATION THROUGH CONTACT PAGE
Eligibility

The award is restricted to biomedical investigators below the age of 45 on April 30, 2026 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 Annual Scientific Meeting of ESC 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 the deadline mentioned at the top of this page.

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 or using the contact page, no later than the deadline date mentioned at the top of this page.

Award procedure

The award will be presented during the Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation. The recipient provides 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 1500 Euro will be transferred to the awardee’s bank account within one week after the review manuscript has been received.

2025 Winners
Young Investigator Award Clinical Research: Dr. Vivak Parkash – Sheffield, United Kingdom
Young Investigator Award Basic Research: Ana Raquel Esteves – Coimbra, Portugal
Previous winners

Award Winners 2024

Young Investigator Award Clinical Research: Dr Nurulamin Noor

Young Investigator Award Basic Research; Dr. Giampaolo Morciano

Award Winners 2023

  • Young Investigator Award Clinical Research: Prof. Daniel Kotlarz
  • Young Investigator Award Basic Research: Prof. Christina Garcia Caceres
  • Best Original Research Article focused on SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: Sabrina Pagano

Award Winners 2022

  • Young Investigator Award Clinical Research: Margherita Giannini MD, PhD
  • Young Investigator Award Basic Research: Marina Garcia Macia PhD, BsC

Award Winners 2021

  • Young Investigator Award Clinical Research: Luca Liberale, MD, FESC
  • Young Investigator Award Basic Research: Manuela Ferreira, PhD

Award Winners 2020

  • Young Investigator Award Clinical Research:  Prof. Fabrizio Montecucco
  • Young Investigator Award Basic Research:  Dr. Guadalupe Sabio

Award Winners 2019

  • Young Investigator Award Clinical Research: Dr. Amaia Rodriguez
  • Young Investigator Award Basic Research:  Dr. Ruben Nogueiras

Award Winners 2018

  • Young Investigator Award Clinical Research: Dr. Victoria Catalán PhD BSc
  • Young Investigator Award Basic Research: Dr. Miguel López, PhD

Award Winners 2017

  • Young Investigator Award Clinical Research: Gemma Chiva-Blanch, PhD 
  • Young Investigator Award Basic Research: Oliver Soehnlein, MD, PhD

Award Winners 2016

  • Young Investigator Award Clinical Research: Prof. Marjolein van Egmond, PhD
  • Young Investigator Award Basic Research: Dr. Antoine Muchir