Dear Colleagues,

The journal Children (MDPI, Switzerland, ISSN 2227-9067, mdpi.com/journal/children) is inviting applications for the Children 2021 Best Ph.D. Thesis Award. This prize will be awarded to a Ph.D. student who is about to graduate or participate in the graduation thesis. The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars from the Children Editorial Board.

Eligibility Requirements:

(a) The candidate must be a Ph.D. student who is going to graduate or participate in graduation thesis defenses.

(b) The PhD thesis must be original work.

(c)The PhD thesis must be defended between 1 January, 2020 and 31 December, 2021.

(d) Applicants are required to submit the following documents:

- An executive summary of the PhD thesis in English, of around 3000 words;

- A letter from PhD supervisor recommending the candidate for consideration for this award;

- The candidate’s CV, including a list of publications connected with the thesis;

- An electronic copy of the PhD thesis;

- A scanned copy of the PhD diploma.

Selection Criteria:

- Quality of resume and publications;

- Relevance of the candidate and research description;

- Novelty of the candidate’s PhD thesis;

- Strength of the recommendation letter;

- Anticipated academic potential;

- Originality and impact of the research.

Prizes

– One winner;
– Bonus (800 CHF);
– Certificate;
– Offer to publish a featured paper in Children with the article processing charge (APC) waived before the end of 2022.

The winner will be announced on the journal website in May 2022.

How to apply?

- Please submit your application online.

The application deadline is 31 March 2022. The winner will be announced on the Children website by the end of May 2022.

Please feel free to contact us at [email protected] with any questions.

Kind regards,
Children Editorial Office

Children (ISSN 2227-9067) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal of pediatrics published monthly online by MDPI. The publication focuses on sharing clinical, epidemiological and translational science relevant to children’s health. Children has been indexed within SCIE (Web of Science), PubMed, PMC, and many other databases. The website of Children can be accessed here.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Children is now inviting nominations for the Children 2021 Young Investigator Award. This prize will be given to one young investigator in recognition of her/his research achievements related to children’s health. All nominations will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Professor Sari A. Acra.

The Prize

– 2000 CHF (Swiss Francs);

– The option to publish one peer-reviewed paper free of charge in Children before the end of December 2022.

Eligibility and Requirements

– Candidates must have conducted groundbreaking research and/or made a significant contribution to the advancement of children’s health;

– Must be below 35 years of age and have received their PhD no more than 10 years prior to 31 December 2020;

– Candidates must be nominated by senior scientists or their supervisors/mentors.

List of Documents for Nomination

– Detailed Curriculum Vitae, including an updated publication list and a list of the researcher’s own research grants;

– Birth certificate or other proof of age;

– A description of the candidate’s research and a scanned copy of the doctorate certificate;

– Signed nomination letters from two senior scientists/supervisors/ mentors.

Schedule

– Nomination deadline: 31 October, 2021

– Winner announcement: 31 December, 2021

How to submit nominations?

The nominations must be submitted online.

Contact

– Ms. Alexis Liu

– Marketing Specialist

– Email: [email protected]

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Sari A. Acra, we wish to acknowledge our reviewers who so generously give their time to review the papers submitted to Children by presenting the awards to the reviewers who have demonstrated their dedication, professionalism, and timeliness in reviewing manuscripts for Children.

What are the pre-requisites to be eligible for the awards?

• All of the reviewers for Children in 2020 will be automatically included.

Select criteria:

• Number of review reports (only first review reports are considered);
• Review quality based on the rating given in the Submission System;
• Review speed.

What will the winners receive?

There will be two winners this year, and the winners will receive the following:

• 500 Swiss francs;
• An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in 2021;
• A certificate.

When will the winners be announced?

• The winners will be announced in June 2021 on the journal website.

How can I make myself eligible?

• If you have not yet reviewed papers for Children, but would like to do so, you can register as a reviewer at the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.

Kind regards,
Children Editorial Office

Children (ISSN 2227-9067) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal of pediatrics published monthly online by MDPI. The publication focuses on sharing clinical, epidemiological and translational science relevant to children’s health. Children has been indexed within SCIE (Web of Science), PubMed, PMC, and many other databases. The website of Children can be accessed here.

Dear Colleagues,

To acknowledge the continued support of our authors, we are pleased to announce the “Children 2019 Best Paper Awards” for research and review articles published in Children from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019. One research article and one review will receive the award. We hope this award will encourage the publication of other high-quality papers in the journal. The paper will be selected after thorough evaluation by the Journal Award Committee, and the winner will be announced in July 2021.

Eligibility for the Awards:

– Papers published in Children from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019;

– Open to all career levels;

– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria:

The papers will be selected by the Journal Award Committee according to the following criteria (data source: Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)):

– Relevance to the journal’s field;

– Scientific merit and broad impact;

– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;

– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;

– Clarity of presentation;

– Citation and download rates in 2020.

Prizes:

– One review and one research article award: 800 CHF and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Children in 2021;

– Each winner will also receive a certificate.

The winners will be announced on the journal website in July 2021.

Kind regards,
Children Editorial Office

Children (ISSN 2227-9067) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal of pediatrics published monthly online by MDPI. The publication focuses on sharing clinical, epidemiological and translational science relevant to children’s health. Children has been indexed within SCIE (Web of Science), PubMed, PMC, and many other databases. The website of Children can be accessed here.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Children 2020 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Erica Kaye.

Erica C. Kaye, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Oncology, Division of Quality of Life and Palliative Medicine, at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Dr. Kaye received her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Yale, her Medical Degree from Harvard, and her Master's in Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with a focus on qualitative and mixed methodology research training. She completed her pediatrics residency at Boston Children’s Hospital, followed by two subspecialty fellowships in pediatric hematology-oncology and hospice and palliative medicine at St. Jude. She currently practices clinically as a pediatric palliative oncologist, and her research centers on the development of interventions to improve communication between clinicians, children with advancing cancer, and their families. Dr. Kaye is a rising leader in her field, with more than 50 peer-reviewed publications related to pediatric cancer, palliative care, and communication research. She received the Kathleen M. Foley Research Scholar Award in 2017, the Kornfeld Scholar’s Award in 2019, and was recognized as an Emerging Leader in Hospice and Palliative Medicine in 2020. Dr. Kaye also serves as the Associate Program Director for the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, the Director of Student Research in the Quality of Life and Palliative Care Research Division, and the Chair of the Qualitative Research Network at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

As the awardee, Dr. Kaye will receive an honorarium of 2000 CHF and an offer to publish one paper free of charge before the end of 31 December 2021 in Children after peer-review.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the abundant excellent nominations.

Children 2021 Young Investigator Award Evaluation Committee

Dear Colleagues,

We are inviting applications for a Travel Award for residents, fellows, and other non-fellow postdoctoral trainees to attend a scientific or medical meeting with relevance to the field pediatrics of their choice in 2019.

The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee presided by the Editor-in-Chief of Children,
Prof. Dr. Sari A. Acra, MD, MPH

Candidates’ Requirements:
–– Abstract submitted to a pediatric conference
–– Applicant’s curriculum vitae, along with a one-page statement from the candidate describing his/her research interests and possible career plans in a pediatric sub-specialty.
–– Recommendation letter from by his/her mentor.

The Award will sponsor residents, fellows, and other non-fellow postdoctoral trainees to attend an upcoming meeting *, while presenting an abstract as a first author. The stipend will be given on a competitive basis. This grant is restricted to a one-time acceptance.

The Award will consist of 800 Swiss Francs (approximately $800 USD) and is sponsored by the journal Children. Please apply online at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/children/awards by 31st March 2019. The awardee will be announced by the end of April 2019.

* Applications for meetings or conferences starting before May 2019 will not be considered.

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Children, I am pleased to announce the recipient of the Children 2018 Travel Award, chosen from a group of very qualified applicants from across the globe. The award will be granted to Dr. Zoe Michael, who is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at Birgham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, USA.

Dr. Michael’s primary research focus has been on investigating the contribution of inflammation to the pathogenesis of pulmonary hypertension. In that vein, she has been involved in several projects that are designed to evaluate the effect of carbonic anhydrase inhibition and metabolic acidosis in experimental models of pulmonary hypertension.

Onbehalf of Children, she will be awarded 800 Swiss Francs to attend the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference to be held in Orlando, USA on 2 November 2018. There, she will present her ongoing work entitled “Acetazolamide Modulates Pulmonary Inflammation and Ameliorates Severe Experimental Pulmonary Hypertension”.

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Michael on her excellent contribution and notable accomplishment.

Prof. Sari Acra, MD, MPH
Editor-in-Chief,
Children

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Children, I am pleased to announce the winner of the Children Travel Award for 2017 Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) meeting:

The Travel Award was granted to Dr. Francis Joseph Real, General Pediatric Master Educator Fellow at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA. His work submitted to PAS focused on novel physician-patient communication training using immersive virtual reality (VR) to decrease rates of influenza vaccination refusal. This work is in line with Dr Real’s long-term career interest in improving health outcomes for children in low-income settings through innovative educational strategies.

The award consists of 800 Swiss Francs to attend the upcoming Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting 2017. Please join me in congratulating Dr. Real on his excellent contribution and notable accomplishment.

Sari Acra, Editor-in-Chief, Children

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Children, I am pleased to announce the winner of the Children Travel Award for 2016:

The Travel Award was granted to Dr. Kezhen Huang, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Connecticut Health Center, USA. Dr. Huang’s research involves exploring the regulation of the toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) signaling in the intestine by bacterial products, offering potential therapeutic pathways to mitigate the risk of necrotizing enterocolitis in neonates.

The award consists of 800 Swiss Francs to attend the upcoming Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting 2016. Please join me in congratulating Kezhen on her excellent contribution and notable accomplishment.

Sari Acra, Editor-in-Chief, Children