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Travel Award

JCM Travel Award was launched in 2017, and it is presented every year to encourage junior scientists to present their latest research at academic conferences in the field of clinical medicine, which helps to increase their influence. The application process is open from May to December every year and winners are announced by the end of January of the next year.

The Prize:
– CHF 800;
– An electronic certificate.

Number of Winners: Two

 
JCM Travel Award
 
Application deadline: 31 December 2025
Winner announcement: 31 January 2026

Eligibility and Requirements

– Postdoctoral fellows or PhD students;
– Plans to attend an international conference in 2026 (oral presentation or poster).

List of Documents for Application

– Information of the conference the applicant is planning to attend and the abstract that will be submitted;
– Curriculum Vitae and list of publications;
– Justification letter describing the focus of the research (max. 800 words);
– Letter of recommendation from the supervisor, research director, or department head, which also confirms the applicant’s status.
 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

Panteleimon Pantelidis
3rd Department of Cardiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Alice Pozza
Paediatric Cardiology Unit, Department of Women’s and Child’s Health, University of Padua, Italy; Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada

Award Committee

Dr. Kent Doi Chairman
The University of Tokyo Hospital
Dr. Teruhiko Imamura
University of Toyama
Prof. Dr. Giustino Varrassi
Fondazione Paolo Procacci

Winner

Nurulamin M. Noor
University of Cambridge, UK
Ferdinando D’Amico
IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, Milan, Italy

Award Committee

Prof. Emmanuel Andrès Chairman
University Hospital of Strasbourg
Prof. Anastasios Kollias
Hypertension Center, Third Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Sotiria Hospital
Prof. Dr. Orestis Ioannidis
4th Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Dr. VA North Texas Health Care System
University of Texas Southwestern

Winner

Alexandru Achim
Heart Institute, Cluj, RO, Romania
Francesco Restelli
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Italy

Award Committee

Prof. HIDEKAZU SUZUKI Chairman
Tokai University School of Medicine
Prof. Monica Florescu
Transilvania University of Brasov
Prof. Lindsay Brown
Griffith University Gold Coast campus
Dr. Yacov Shacham
Tel-Aviv Sourasky medical center

Winner

Max Lennart Eckstein
University of Bayreuth, Germany
Lorenzo Bertani
University of Pisa, Italy

Award Committee

Prof. Emmanuel Andrès Chairman
University Hospital of Strasbourg
Prof. Dr. Yogesh Kumar Vashist
KFSHRC
Dr. Miguel Muñoz
Dr. Andrew Day
Paediatric Gastroenterology, Sydney Children’s Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Prof. Eyal Sheiner
Soroka University Medical Center
Dr. Simone Ferrero
University of Genova, Italy

Winner

JOURDI Georges
Research Center, Montreal Heart Institute
Giuseppe Lamberti
IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna

Award Committee

Prof. Emmanuel Andrès Chairman
University Hospital of Strasbourg
Dr. Michael Hennerici
Dr. Kent Doi
The University of Tokyo Hospital
Prof. Gianrico Spagnuolo
University of Napoli "Federico II"

Winner

Emma Rheel
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Miriam Krieger
Paul Scherrer Institute, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Award Committee

Prof. Emmanuel Andrès Chairman
University Hospital of Strasbourg
Dr. Lindsay Farrer
Boston University School of Medicine
Dr. Juan Navarro-Gonzalez
Prof. Dr. Paul Huang
Prof. Salvatore De Rosa
Magna Graecia University

Winner

Elisa Ramos Sevillano
University College London, UK

Award Committee

Dr. Jane Grant-Kels Chairman
University of CT Health Center
Prof. Emmanuel Andrès
University Hospital of Strasbourg
Dr. Juan Navarro-Gonzalez
Dr. Lindsay Farrer
Boston University School of Medicine
Prof. Salvatore De Rosa
Magna Graecia University

Winner

Anja Kafka
Laboratory of Neuro-oncology at Croatian Institute for Brain Research, School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Croatia,

Winner

Elly Marcq
Center for Oncological Research, University of Antwerp, Belgium
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