SYIS Best Publication Award
Submit your publication for the SYIS Best Publication Award in one of the following categories:
- Best primary research article ((Co-)first author)
- Best primary research article ((Co-)last author)
- Best review ((Co-)first author)
Also clinical papers are welcome!
The best publication of each category will be awarded with 350 CHF.
In addition, the winner in the category best primary research article (first author) will be invited to the upcoming SYIS Annual Symposium to present their award winning work.
The winners of the SYIS Paper Award will be announced at the SYIS General Assembly.
All submitted publications will be advertised via social media and newsletters of SYIS and its partners.
Interested in becoming one of the evaluators? Have a look here!
Eligibility Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
- Papers must be submitted within the year of publication until January 31st of the following year in order to be eligible for the award. The first date of publication counts (epub). Within this time period they can be submitted anytime.
- Publications from the same year are evaluated together, i.e. submission in January are automatically allocated to the earlier or later award year depending on their publication date.
- The applicant needs to be (co-)first or (co-)last author of the submitted work and member of the SYIS at the time of publication.
- Papers and authors can not win in multiple categories within the same year.
- SYIS reserves the right to omit a category or merge it with another depending on the number of submissions, in case of too few submissions, or to create a separate category for clinical papers.
2024 Edition
Winners
First Author Winner: Lenka Súkeníková – “Autoreactive T cells target peripheral nerves in Guillain–Barré syndrome“
First Author Runner-Up: Nicole Leonie Bertschi – “Human T Helper 9 Cells Rely on Peroxisome Proliferator–Activated Receptor-γ–Mediated Cystine Uptake to Prevent Lipid Peroxidation and Bioenergetic Failure“
Evaluators
The SYIS is deeply thankful to all evaluators!
- Dr. Sriram Kumar, Institute of Virology, Münster
- Dr. Lei Deng, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford
- Dr. Paola Martinez Murillo, CK-CARE, Davos
- Dr. Verena Lentsch, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford
- Dr. Annika Hausmann, IFNH, ETH Zurich
2023 Edition
Winners
First Author: Mechthild Lutge – “Conserved stromal–immune cell circuits secure B cell homeostasis and function“
Last Author: Yasutaka Mitamura – “Household laundry detergents disrupt barrier integrity and induce inflammation in mouse and human skin“
Review: Ioana Sandu – “T-cell heterogeneity, progenitor–progeny relationships, and function during latent and chronic viral infections“
Evaluators
The SYIS is deeply thankful to all evaluators!
- Dr. Sriram Kumar, Institute of Virology, Münster
- Dr. Lena Siewert, Department Biomedicine, Basel
- Dr. Jeremy Yeoh, Institute of Tissue Medicine and Pathology, Bern
- Anna Estrada Brull, M.Sc. Department of Quantitative Biomedicine, University of Zurich
- Dr. Dilara Sahin, Department of Immunology, UZH
- Dr. Annika Hausmann, reNEW – NNF Center for Stem Cell Medicine, UCPH, DK
- Dr. Davide G. Franchina, Stanford School of Medicine, Dept. of Pathology
- Dr. Verena Lentsch, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford
- Dr. Paola Andrea Martinez Murillo, CK CARE – Christine Kühne Center for Allergy Research and Education, Davos, Switzerland
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