Awards & Fellowships

ESPE-Hormone Research Prize

 

Introduction

The annual ESPE-Hormone Research prize, initiated in 2004, rewards a young clinical or experimental scientist for the "best original paper" published in Hormone Research.

The Editor in Chief and the Associate Editors of Hormone Research makes up the Selection Committee and potential winners are elected in the Spring. The decision is notified to the authors by July.

The prize is generously offered by S. Karger. Publishers, Basel.

The first prize, given in 2004, was awarded to Sylvie Tenoutasse et al for :

IGF-I transcript levels in whole-liver tissue, in freshly isolated hepatocytes, and in cultured hepatocytes from lean and obese Zucker rats, Horm Res 2003, 59: 135-141.

In 2005, the ESPE - HORMONE RESEARCH was awarded to Lonneke de Boer for the paper

Genotype-Phenotype Correlation in Patients Suspected of Having Sotos Syndrome, Horm Res 2004;62:197-207

The 2006 award winner was Paul Martin Holterhus for his paper on

Transactivation Properties of Wild-Type and Mutant Androgen Receptors in Transiently Transfected Primary Human Fibroblasts, Horm Res 2005;63:152-158

The Prize is awarded at the ESPE Annual meeting and given to the first author of the winning article.

In 2007, two ESPE-Hormone Research prizes were awarded as follows:

Original Papers section
published in Volume 65, No. 2,
69 Insulin Resistance Is an Intrinsic Defect Independent of Fat Mass in Women with Turner's Syndrome
Salgin, B.; Amin, R.; Yuen, K.; Williams, R.M.; Murgatroyd, P.; Dunger, D.B. (Cambridge)

Novel Insights from Clinical Experience section
published in Volume 65, No. 4,
163 Importance of Genetic Diagnosis of DAX-1 Deficiency: Example from a Large, Multigenerational Family
Ostermann, S. Salvi, R. (Lausanne); Lang-Muritano, M. (Zürich); Voirol, M.-J. (Lausanne); Puttinger, R. (Salzburg); Gaillard, R.C. (Lausanne); Schoenle, E. (Zürich); Pralong, F.P. (Lausanne)