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Winner announcement: 28 February 2026
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Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Juan Manuel Vázquez-Lago
Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Spain
Ionela-Larisa Miftode
University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Grigore T. Popa”, Romania
Tomasz M. Karpiński
Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poland
Winner
Dr. Patrícia Pires
Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra (FFUC-UC) and Health Sciences Research Centre, Coimbra, Portugal
Dr. Raktham Mektrirat
Department of Veterinary Biosciences and Public Health, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
“Costin C. Kiriţescu” National Institute of Economic Research—Center for Mountain Economics (INCE-CEMONT) of Romanian Academy, Vatra Dornei, Romania
Winner
Maxime Pichon
Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Hygiène, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Poitiers, Poitiers, France
Violeta Popovici
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Ovidius University of Constanta, 7 Ilarie Voronca Street, 900684 Constanta, Romania
Yosra A. Helmy
Food Animal Health Research Program, Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH 44691, USA
Winner
Jean Vanderpas
Consultant Ecole Santé Publique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
Morgan Feeney
University of Strathclyde, UK
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Prof. Nicholas Dixon
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University of Wollongong
Ms. Molly Li
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