Early Career Award

This Prize recognizes ISPAD members early in their career

ISPAD Early Career Award recognizes members who are in the early stages of their career (less than seven years after their last degree or scientific promotion: Doctorate/Ph.D./Habilitation) for their research trajectory and a paper published in a peer-reviewed journal within two years of the application.

The ISPAD Early Career Award is kindly sponsored by

The prize winner will be invited to attend ISPAD’s Annual Conference to officially receive the award at ISPAD’s Networking & Recognition Evening. ISPAD will cover registration, Economy travel, and accommodation.

Previous winners

2025: Stefano Passanisi, Italy

2024: Agata Chobot, Poland

2023: Klemen Dovc, Slovenia

2022: Ananta Addala, USA

2021: Torben Biester, Germany 

2020: Elisa De Franco, UK

2019: Gregory Forlenza, USA

2018: Martin Tauschmann, Austria

2017: Petter Bjornstad, USA

2016: Wojciech Fendler, Poland

2015: Loredana Marcovecchio, Italy

2014: Amy Shah, USA

2013: Rachel Besser, UK

2012: Natalia Marek, Poland

2011: Oscar Rubio-Cabezas, Spain

2010: Michael Haller, USA

2009: Jamil Malik, Netherlands

2008: Wojciech Mlynarski, Poland

2007: Helge Raeder, Norway

2006: Ethel Codner, Chile

How to nominate a candidate for this prize?

For this category, members can nominate themselves or be nominated by a third party who should be an ISPAD member.

The nominator/nominee should provide all documents below (in English):

  1. CV including the list of publications (without reprints), Scopus h-index, number of publications, and citation index 
  2. A paper published in a peer-reviewed journal within two years of the application as first or last author (PDF file)
  3. Copy of the last degree/scientific promotion certificate

Nominations for the 2025 ISPAD Prizes are closed. Thank you for celebrating excellence with us!

Send all the documents mentioned above to [email protected]. 

Eligibility criteria

  • Less than seven years after their last degree or scientific promotion, i.e., Doctorate or Ph.D.
  • Current ISPAD member and ISPAD member for at least 50% of the last 2 years
  • All professions

Employment in the pharmaceutical sector may constitute a conflict of interest.