We are pleased to announce that 44 scholars in the field of biology and life sciences have been selected as the 2026 Travel Award winners.

Agronomy:

• Cheryl Adeva, University of Missouri, USA;
• Salvador Osuna-Caballero, University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

Animals:

• Carolina Allievi, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy.

Antibiotics:

• Ana Cristina Fidalgo Almeida Santos, Universidade do Porto, Portugal;
• Silvia Di Lodovico, “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy.

Beverages:

• Nazarena Cela, University of Gastronomic Sciences, Italy.

Bioengineering:

• Jann Harberts, Monash University, Australia;
• Sharun Khan, Aalborg University, Denmark.

Biomedicines:

• Kristin Schüler, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal;
• Polina Navrátilová, Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

Biomimetics & Nanomaterials:

• Jianhui Liu, Harvard University, USA;

Biosensors:

• Yingjie Hang, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA.

Brain Sciences:

• Francesca Inferrera, University of Messina, Italy;
• Nicoló Ricciardi, University of Palermo, Italy.

CIMB & Cancers:

• Alireza Shoari, Mayo Clinic, USA.

Cancers:

• Sylvia Mangani, University of Patras, Greece.

CIMB & Toxics:

• Kunj Bihari Gupta, Augusta University, USA.

Diseases:

• Md Jakaria, Purdue University, USA.

Diversity:

• Deborah Burn, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia.

Fermentation:

• Anastasiia Kasianova, University of Turin, Italy.

Fishes:

• Aristotelis Moulistanos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Foods:

• Minh Quoc Ha, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand;
• Min-Seok Kim, Kyung-Hee University, Republic of Korea.

Geriatrics:

• Daniel Schlueter, Bielefeld University, Germany.

JCDD:

• Hyeryeong Lee, Konkuk University, Republic of Korea;
• Luca Arcari, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

JDB:

• Jeanyoung Kim, Loma Linda University, USA.

Kidney and Dialysis:

• Kritsanawan Sae-khow, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand;
• Martina Catania, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Lariana, Italy.

Life:

• Diogo Gonçalves, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal;
• Rossella Izzo, IRCCS Institute of Neurology Carlo Besta, Italy.

Metabolites:

• Fanzhou Kong, University of California, Davis, USA.

Microorganisms:

• Adam Whisnant, Hannover Medical School, Germany;
• Greta Bajetto, The University of Turin, Italy;
• Manjul Gautam, Australian National University, Australia.

MPs:

• Julio Puigcerver Alarcón, University of Murcia, Spain.

Neurology International:

• Johannes Gerb, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.

Pathogens:

• Jil Alexandra Haase, National Institutes of Health, USA;
• Wesley Freppel, Griffith University, Australia.

Plants:

• Antonella Di Francesco, University of Catania, Italy;
• Ke Liu, University of Tasmania, Australia;
• Yuri Lee, National Research Council, Italy.

Quaternary:

• Jessica Zappa, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.

• Nur Nadhirah Syafiqah Binti Suhaimi, HUN-REN Veterinary Medical Research Institute, Hungary.