Stefano Cianfarani

Editor Hormone Research in Paediatrics

The annual ESPE Hormone Research in Paediatrics Award, initiated in 2004, rewards an early-career clinical or experimental scientist for the best original paper and novel insights from clinical practice published in Hormone Research in Paediatrics.

Selection procedure

  • The Editor-in-Chief and the Associate Editors of Hormone Research in Paediatrics make up the Selection Committee, and potential winners are elected in the Spring. Authors are notified of the decision by July.
  • The award is generously offered by the Journal’s publisher S. Karger.
  • It is awarded at the ESPE Annual Meeting and given to the first author of the winning article.

Award winners

2025 | Utility of First-Morning-Voided Urinary Total Luteinizing Hormone in Detecting the Onset of Central Puberty

And Demir et al
Best original paper

2025 | Recognition of Hyperinsulinaemic Hypoglycaemia in Infants with Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome

Neha Malhotra et al
Novel insights from clinical practice

2024 | Growth and Treatment in Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia: An Observational Study from Diagnosis to Final Height

Sebastian Gidlöf et al
Best original paper

2024 | Thioredoxin Reductase 2 Variant as a Cause of Micropenis, Undescended Testis, and Selective Glucocorticoid Deficiency

Supitcha Patjamontri et al
Novel insights from clinical practice

2023 | Cariovascular Risk Factors in Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: The Role of Insulin Resistance and Associated Genetic Variants

Alice Maguolo et al
Best original paper

2023 | Early Postnatall Use of Glibenclamide in Permanent Neonatal Diabetes Secondary to Antenatally Diagnosed KJCN11 Mutation

Sandra Walton-Betancourth et al
Novel insights from clinical practice

2022 | Fertility of Women Treated during Childhood with Triptorelin (Depot Formulation) for Central Precocious Puberty: The PREFER Study

Laetitia Martinerie et al
Best original paper

2022 | Crk Haploinsufficiency Is Associated with Intrauterine Growth Retardation and Severe Postnatal Growth Failure

Annalisa Deodati et al
Novel insights from clinical practice

2021 | Growth Trajectory and Adult Height in Children with Nonclassical Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia

Letteria Anna Morabito et al
Best original paper

2021 | Isolated 17, 20 Lyase Deficiency Secondary to a Novel CYB5A Variant: Comparison of Steroid Metabolomic Findings with Published Cases Provides Diagnostic Guidelines and Greater Insight into its Biological Role

Meera Shaunak etc al
Novel insights from clinical practice

2020 | The Bone Markers Sclerostin, Osteoprotegerin, and Bone-Specific Alkaline Phosphatase Are Related to Insulin Resistance in Children and Adolescents, Independent of Their Association with Growth and Obesity

Stanik J. et al
Best original paper

2020 | Haploinsufficiency of NKX2-1 in Brain-Lung-Thyroid Syndrome with Additional Multiple Pituitary Dysfunction

Rathi Prasad etc al
Novel insights from clinical practice

2019 | Sodium Chlorise Supplementation Is No Routinely Performed in the Majority of German and Austrian Infants with Classic Salt-Wasting Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia and Has No Effect on Linear Growth and Hydrocortisone or Fludrocortisone Dose

Bonfig W., Roehl F., Riedl S., Bramswig J., Richter-Unruh A., Frick-Otto S., Hubner A., Bettendorf M., Schonau E., Dorr H., Holl R.W., Mohnike K.
Best original paper

2019 | Continuous Subcutaneous Recombinant Parathyroid Hormone (1-34) Infusion in the Management of Childhood Hypoparathyroidism Associated with Malabsorption

Saraff V., Rothenbuhler A., Hogler W., Linglart A.
Novel insights from clinical practice

2018 | Rapid Molecular Genetic Diagnosis with Next-Generation Sequencing in 46,XY Disorders of Sex Development Cases: Efficiency and Cost Assessment

Osen S., Onay H., Atik T., Solmaz A.E., Ozkinay F., Goksen D., Darcan S.
Best original paper

2018 | Short Stature in a Boy with Multiple Early-Onset Autoimmune Conditions due to a STAT3 Activating Mutating: Could Intracellular Growth Hormone Signalling Be Compomised?

Sediva H., Dusatkova P., Kanderova V., Obermannova B., Kayserova J., Sramkova L., Zemkova D., Elblova L., Svaton M., Zachova R., Kolouskova S., Fronkova E., Sumnik Z., Sediva A., Lebl J., Pruhova S.
Novel insights from clinical practice

2016 | Dietary Energy Intake, Body Composition and Resting Energy Expenditure in Prepubertal Children with Prader–Willi Syndrome before and during Growth Hormone Treatment: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Bakker NEE., Siemensma EP., Koopman C., Hokken–Koelega AC.
Best original paper

2016 | An Intron 9 CYP19 Gene Variant (IVS9+5G>A), Present in an Aromatase-Deficient Girl, Affects Normal Splicing and Is Also Present in Normal Human Steroidogenic Tissues

Saraco N., Nesi–Franca S., Sainz R., Marino R., Marques–Pereira R., La Pastina J., Perez Garrido N., Sandrini R., Rivarola M.A., de Lacerda L., Belgorosky A.
Novel insights from clinical practice

2015 | Components of the Metabolic Syndrome in Early Childhood in Very–Low–Birth–Weight Infants

de Jong M.; Lafeber H.N.; Cranendonk A.; van Weissenbruch M.M.
Best original paper

2015 | Human Pancreas Endocrine Cell Populations and Activating ABCC8 Mutations

Busiah K.; Verkarre V.; Cavé H.; Scharfmann R.; Polak M.
Novel insights from clinical practice

2014 | Implementation of a Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry Assay for Eight Adrenal c–21 Steroids and Pediatric Reference Data

Alexandra E. Kulle; Welzel, M.; Holterhus P.M.; Riepe, F.G.
Best original paper

2014 | Rapid Improvement of Hepatic Steatosis after Initiation of Leptin Substitution in a Leptin–Deficient Girl

Julia von Schnurbein; Heni, M.; Moss, A.; Nagel, S.A.; Machann, J.; Muehleder, H.; Debatin, K.M.; Farooqi, S.; Wabitsch, M.
Novel insights from clinical practice

2013 | Breastfeeding and determinants of adult body composition: a prospective study from birth to young adulthood

Satu Pirilä, Saarinen-Pihkala, U.M.; Viljakainen, H.; Turanlahti, M.; Kajosaari, M.; Mäkitie, O.; Taskinen, M.
Best original paper

2013 | Leptin substitution results in the induction of menstrual cycles in an adolescent with leptin deficiency and hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism

Julia von Schnurbein, Moss, A.; Nagel, S.A.; Muehleder, H.; Debatin, K.M.; Farooqi, I.S.; Wabitsch, M.
Novel insights from clinical practice

2012 | Influence of Fetal Growth Velocity and Smallness at Birth on Adrenal Function in Adolescence

Rikke Beck Jensen, Vielwerth, S.; Larsen, T.; Hilsted, L. Cohen, A.; Hougaard, D.M.; Jensen, L.T.; Greisen, G. and Juul, A.
Best original paper

2012 | Lasting 18F-DOPA PET Uptake after Clinical Remission of the Focal Form of Congenital Hyperinsulinism

Tohru Yorifuji , Hosokawa, Y.; Fujimaru, R.; Kawakita, R.; Doi, H.; Matsumoto, T.; Nishibori, H.; Masue, M.
Novel insights from clinical practice

2011 | Estrogen Prevents Senescence through Induction of WRN, Werner Syndrome Protein

Su-Jin Lee
Best original paper

2011 | Congenital Hyperinsulinism due to a Compound Heterozygous ABCC8 Mutation with Spontaneous Resolution at Eight Weeks

Anitha Kumaran
Novel insights from clinical practice

2010 | Primary Ovarian Dysfunction Contributes to the Hypogonadism in Women with Prader-Willi Syndrome

Talia Eldar-Geva, Harry J. Hirsch, Ron Rabinowitz, Fortu Benarroch, Orit Rubinstein, Varda Gross-Tsur
Best original paper

2010 | Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome in Newborns – A Case Presentation and Literature Review

Jerzy Starzyk, Malgorzata Wójcik, Joanna Wojtys, Przemyslaw Tomasik, Zofia Mitkowska, Jacek J. Pietrzyk.
Novel insights from clinical practice

2009 | Primary Hyperparathyroidism in Neonates and Childhood: The French Experience (1984–2004)

Eric Mallet
Best original paper

2009 | Long-Term Non-Surgical Therapy of Severe Persistent
Congenital Hyperinsulinism with Glucagon

Klaus Mohnike
Novel insights from clinical practice

2007 | Insulin Resistance is an Intrinsic Defect Independent of Fat Mass in Women with Turner’s Syndrome

Burak Salgin, Rakesh Amin, Kevin Yuen, Rachel M. Williams, Peter Murgatroyd, David B. Dunger
Best original paper

2007 | Importance of Genetic Diagnosis of DAX-1 Deficiency: Example from a Large, Multigenerational Family

Sandrine Ostermann, Roberto Salvia, Mariarosaria Lang-Muritano, Marie-Jeanne Voirol, Rudolf Puttinger, Rolf C. Gaillard, Eugen Schoenle, François P. Pralong
Novel insights from clinical practice

2006 | Transactivation Properties of Wild-Type and Mutant Androgen Receptors in Transiently Transfected Primary Human Fibroblasts

P.M. Holterhus, J. Salzburg, R. Werner, O. Hiort
Best original paper

2005 | Genotype-Phenotype Correlation in Patients Suspected of Having Sotos Syndrome

Lonneke de Boer, Sarina G. Kant, Marcel Karperien, Lotte van Beers, Jennifer Tjon, Geraldine R. Vink, Dewy van Tol, Hans Dauwerse, Saskia le Cessie, Frits A. Beemer, Ineke van der Burgt, Ben C.J. Hamel, Raoul C. Hennekam, Ursula Kuhnle, Inge B. Mathijssen, Hermine E. Veenstra-Knol, Connie T. Schrander Stumpel, Martijn H. Breuning, Jan M. Wit
Best original paper

2004 | IGF-I Transcript Levels in Whole-Liver Tissue, in Freshly Isolated Hepatocytes, and in Cultured Hepatocytes from Lean and Obese Zucker Rats

S. Tenoutasse, G. Van Vliet, E. Ledru, C. Deal
Best original paper