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Application deadline: 30 November 2026
Winner announcement: 28 February 2027
– Postdoctoral fellows or PhD students; – Plans to attend an international conference in 2027 (oral presentation or poster).
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Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Jil Alexandra Haase
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, USA
Wesley Freppel
Griffith University, Australia
Award Committee
Dr. Hinh Ly
Chairperson
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Dr. Claudio Farina
ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII
Dr. Yuying Liang
University of Minnesota
Prof. Dr. Longzhu Cui
Jichi Medial University
Winner
Vanessa Silva
University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro
Hejun Liu
The Scripps Research Institute
Tomokazu Tamura
Princeton University
Award Committee
Prof. Lawrence Young
Chairperson
University of Warwick
Dr. Sébastien Besteiro
University of Montpellier, CNRS
Prof. Dr. Fabrizio Fabrizi
Dr. Alexander David Barrow
Winner
Magali Roques
Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Switzerland
Norman van Rhijn
University of Manchester
Allison K. Scherer
Massachusetts General Hospital
Winner
Krystyna Cwiklinski
Queen's University Belfast
Rebecca Sumner
University College London
Winner
Ana Raquel Pinho Freitas
UCIBIO/REQUIMTE, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto
Anna Conrad
Department of Plant Pathology The Ohio State University
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