The European Calcified Tissue Society aims to encourage high-quality research. ECTS supports New Investigators, physicians in training, nurses and Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) by offering a number of awards related to submission of an abstract for the ECTS Annual Congress. These grants and awards are designed to recognise and stimulate outstanding research in the field of calcified tissues and related disciplines.
ECTS offers various types of awards for the best accepted abstracts presented by early career researchers and clinicians.
Please identify whether you are eligible for any of the following awards when you submit your abstract.
ECTS New Investigator Awards:
- The applicant must be the presenting author
- The applicant must be a member of ECTS
- The applicant must be within 3 years of attaining PhD / or is a physician in training / or is aged under 35 at the time of the application
- If you are applying for an award, your eligibility must be confirmed by your head of department or supervisor
Rare Bone Diseases New Investigator Award:
Up to 10 Research Awards of 750€ are available for the highest scoring abstracts submitted by new investigators to ECTS Annual Congress in the field of “paediatric bone diseases” or “rare bone diseases”.
Maria Luisa Bianchi New Investigator Awards
Made available thanks to the financial support from Maria Luisa’s family, these awards are available to applicants who satisfy the following criteria:
- The applicant is the presenting author
- The applicant is a member of ECTS
- The applicant is within three years of attaining a PhD, or is a physician in training, or is aged under 35 years at the time of the application
- The applicant must submit a signed confirmation of eligibility form from their Head of Department
- The abstract must be submitted to the category “Paediatric bone disease” or “Rare bone disease”.
ECTS – ICCBH New Investigator Award
Made available thanks to the financial support from ICCBH, these awards are available to applicants who satisfy the following criteria:
- The applicant is first or presenting author
- The applicant is within three years of attaining a PhD, or is a physician in training, or is aged under 35 years at the time of the application
- The abstract must be submitted to the category “Paediatric bone disease” or “Rare bone disease”.
ECTS Central Eastern Europe Travel Awards:
- The applicant must be the presenting author
- The applicant is within three years of attaining PhD, or is a physician in training or is aged under 35 years at the time of the application
- The applicant is resident in a Central Eastern European Country
Award will cover:
- Free congress registration
- Research Award: 300€
- Travel Grant: up to 450€ to cover hotel and travel
- Free ECTS membership for 1 year
ECTS Travel Awards:
- The applicant is the presenting author
- The applicant is a member of ECTS
- The applicant is within three years of attaining PhD, or is a physician in training or is aged under 35 years at the time of the application
East-meets-West Research Award:
- The applicant is the first author or presenting author of one or several submission from institutions located in China, Japan, Korea and India
- The applicant is within three years of attaining a PhD, or is a physician in training, or is aged under 40 years at the time of the application
ECTS Nurses & Allied Health Award:
- The applicant is the presenting author
- The applicant is a member of ECTS
- The applicant is a nurse or an allied health professional (physiotherapist, dietician, nutritionist)
- The applicant must submit a signed confirmation of eligibility form from their Head of Department
How to apply
- Applications can only be made during the online abstract submission process.
- In the abstract submission form, tick the appropriate award you are applying
- Make sure that the name of the presenting author matches with the name of the applicant
- Upload during the abstract submission a proof of eligibility: a letter signed by the head of the department on the department’s letterhead confirming that you meet the eligibility criteria (such as professional status, age,…).
Congress Awards Payment
Payment of the ECTS Congress Awards will be made after the congress provided you have attended and presented the abstract.
The ECTS New Investigator, Travel, and Research Awards presented during the ECTS 2020 Digital Congress
- Karen De Samblancx
- Andreas Pollard
- Mikkel Bo Brent
- Dana Trompet
- Ghazal Hedjazi
- Federica Scotto di Carlo
- Yetki Aslan
- Riika Mäkitie
- Davide Komla-Ebri
- Alice Costantini
- Timur Alexander Yorgan
- Maria-Bernadette Madel
- Beatriz Gamez
- Komal Waqas
- Antonio Maurizi
- Marion Mesnieres
- Shyamsundar Pal China
- Iona Norwood
- Ling Wang, China
- Zhichao Zheng, China
- Feng Xu, China
- Md Azharuddin, India
- Priyanka Singh, India
- Dinesh Kumar Patel, India
- Satoshi Hagio, Japan
- Jinwoo Kim, Korea
- Ye-Soo Park, Korea
Previous Award Winners
The ECTS New Investigator and Travel Awards presented during the ECTS 2019 meeting in Budapest, Hungary.
Marco Ponzetti
Gretl Hendrickx
Juliane Colditz
Melanie Haffner-Luntzer
Mylène Zarka
Imke A.K. Fiedler
Fjorda Koromani
Annika vom Scheidt
Franziska Lademann
Yasemin Hachemi
Carolina Medina-Gomez
Maria-Bernadette Madel
Liliana Mellor
Ciro Menale
Antonio Maurizi
Heike Weidner
Patricia Das Neves Borges
Riikka Mäkitie
Eleonora Palagano
The ECTS New Investigator and Travel Awards presented during the ECTS 2018 meeting in Valencia, Spain.
The ECTS New Investigator and Travel Awards presented during the ECTS 2017 meeting in Salzburg, Austria.
R. T. Bishop
E. Palagano
F. Koromani
P. Milovanovic
A. Maurizi
O. Grgic
G. Lee
P. Nicklin
Y.-C. LIU
M. Christou
T. A. Yorgan
S. H. Chang
R. T. Bishop
E. Palagano
F. Koromani
P. Milovanovic
A. Maurizi
O. Grgic
G. Lee
P. Nicklin
Y.-C. LIU
M. Christou
T. A. Yorgan
S. H. Chang
I. A.K. Fiedler
K. Trajanoska
D. de Ridder
A.-K. Picke
K. Matsuoka
M. Rossi
A. Kovtun
K. Shi
M. Cornille
Francesca Fontana
Claire-Sophie Devignes
Ursula Renate Heilmeier
Pradeep Kumar Sacitharan
Vimal Veeriah
Helen Farman
Antimo Moretti
Fan Wang
Sarah Bristow
Chahrazad Cherifi
Daniel Ajona Martínez-Polo
Andy Willaert
Muhammad Fawwaz Bin Abdullah
Janine Hensel
Marie Pereira
Silvia Marino
Sylvia Thiele
Mattia Capulli
Nicolas Bonnet
Carolina Medina-Gomez
Ayse Zengin
Karin Gustafsson
Dr Barbara Hauser
Antonio Maurizi
New Investigator Awards 2015
Mohammad Alzahrani, Montreal, Canada
Anne–Kristine Amstrup, Aarhus, Denmark
Caroline Andrique, Paris, France
Juan Antonio Ardura Rodriguez, Madrid, Spain
Jyotirmaya Behera, Chennai, India
Annette Birkhold, Weinstadt, Germany
Andrea M. Brum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Ana Maria Pereira da Silva, Cantanhede, Portugal
Matthias Hackl, Vienna, Austria
Susanne Hildebrandt, Dresden, Germany
Jakob Høgild Langdahl, Esbjerg, Denmark
Juliane Isaac, Paris, France
Janak Lal Pathak, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Augustin Latourte, Paris, France
Ciro Menale, Rozzano, Italy
Jess Morhayim, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Dr Sam William Zygmunt Olechnowicz, Oxford, United Kingdom
Naiara Perurena, Pamplona, Spain
Milena Pesic, Beer Sheva, Israel
Ming–Zhu Zhang, Shanghai, China
Travel Awards 2015
Gloria Allocca, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Voisseiere Aurélien, Clermont–Ferrand, France
Ameya Bendre, Turku, Finland
Wafa Bouaziz, Paris, France
Mattia Capulli, Aquila, Italy
Chahrazad Cherifi, Paris, France
Michiel Croes, Je Utrecht, Netherlands
Enrico Dall’Ara, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Joost J.A. de Jong, Maastricht, Netherlands
Claire–Sophie Devignes, Paris, France
Julia Dotterweich, Gerbrunn, Germany
Melanie Haffner-Luntzer, Goeppingen, Germany
Archana Kamalakar, Little Rock, United States of America
Amanda Lorbergs, Boston, United States of America
Yue Ma, St Johns, Canada
Silvia Marino, Sheffield, United States of America
Dennis M. Meesters, Maastricht, Netherlands
Rebecca Moon, Southampton, United Kingdom
Kyoung Ho Moon, Jung-gu Incheon, South Korea
Taulant Muka, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Kumiko Ono, Tokyo, Japan
Ursula Renate Heilmeier, Munich, Germany
Philip Riches, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Daniela Sousa, Porto, Portugal
Stefanie Thiele, Dresden, Germany
Line Underbjerg, Aarhus, Denmark
Ozge Uluckan, Madrid, Spain
Ozge Uluckan, Madrid, Spain
Wafa Bouaziz, Paris, France
Yue Ma, St Johns, Canada
Ana Isabel Espirito Santo, London, UK
Stefanie Thiele, Dresden, Germany
Rafik Mansouri, Paris, France
Eleni Kalyvioti, Achaia, Greece
Mahéva Vallet, Edinburgh, UK
John G Logan, London, UK
Gong Ying, Hangzhou, China
Fatma Gossiel, Sheffield, UK
Kristin Matre Aasarød,Trondheim, Norway
Daniela M Sousa, Portugal
Sandrine Bours, Maastricht, Netherlands
Allied Health Professional Award 2015
Lisanne Vranken, Brugweg, Germany
Cyril Thouverey, Geneva, Switzerland
Thomas Funck-Brentano, Paris, France
Karol Estrada, Boston, USA
Isabel Orriss, London, UK
Silvia Marino, Edinburgh, UK
Mattia Capulli, L’Aquila, Italy
Nerea Alonso, Edinburgh, UK
Abbas Jafari, Odense, Denmark
Hamid Saeed, Lahore, Pakistan
Nerea Alonso Lopez (Edinburgh, UK)
Thomas Funck Bentano (Paris, France)
Francois Lamoureux (Nantes, France)
Marta Maycas Cepeda (Madrid, Spain)
Karla Oldknow (Midlothian, UK)
Tero Puolakkainen (Turku, Finland)
Nicole EE Scully (Cardiff, UK)
Cyril Thouvery (Geneva, Switzerland)
Karmele Valencia Leoz (Pamplona, Spain)
Dongxing Zhu (Edinburgh, UK)
Nicolas Bonnet (Geneva, Switzerland)
Patrícia das Neves Borges (London, UK)
Andrea M. Brum (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Vincent T. Carpentier (Paris, France)
Dr Stephanie Gohin (London, UK)
Dr Celia Gregson(Brisbane, Australia)
Christine Hamann (Dresden, Germany)
Alireza Moayyeri (London, UK)
Isabel Orriss (London, UK)
Kathrin Sinningen (Dresden, Germany)
Antonia Sophocleous (Edinburgh, UK)
Sylvia Theale (Dresden, Germany)
Afrodite Zendelli (Vienna, Austria)
In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the ECTS awarded 50 Anniversary Travel Grants to support attendance at its 2013 congress, 18-21 May in Lisbon. Abstracts that were eligible for but who did not receive a New Investigator Award or Travel Award were entered into a random prize draw for the Anniversary Grants, which were awarded equally between basic and clinical abstracts.
Basic/Translational
Wafa Bouaziz (France)
João Costa-Rodrigues (Portugal)
Andrea Del Fattore (Italy)
Laia Gifre (Spain)
Lorenzo Glorie (Belgium)
Bérengère Gobin (France)
Barbara Hauser (UK)
Gry Hulsart–Billström (Sweden)
Khulood Hussein (Saudi Arabia)
Aleksa Janovic (Serbia)
Tiina Kähkönen (Finalnd)
Ali Kassem (Sweden)
John P Kemp (UK)
Miguel M Machado (Portugal)
Yohei Matsuo (Japan)
David Mellis (UK)
Martina Pauk (Croatia)
Fereydoon Sargolzaei-aval
Maziar Shabestari (Norway)
Mittal Shah (UK)
Sofia Sousa (Finland)
Robert Tower (Germany)
Ksenija Zelic Mihajlovic (Serbia)
Anastasia Zinovyeva (Russia)
Husna Zulkipli (Malaysia)
Clinical
Alberto Argentiero (Italy)
Mara Carsote (Romania)
L Couchman (UK)
Lyn Ferguson (UK)
Torben Harslöf (Denmark)
Glenn Haugeberg (Norway)
Lorena Longato (Italy)
Buyko Maria (Russia)
Elisa Marques (Portugal)
Daniela Merlotti (Italy)
Emil Moser (Denmark)
Kawtar Nassar (Morocco)
Nobukazu Okimoto (Japan)
Aina Pagès-Castellà (Spain)
Lars Rolighed (Denmark)
Sofie Rønn (Denmark)
Bjorn Rosengren (Sweden)
Verena Schwetz (Austria)
Tanja Sikjaer (Denmark)
Margarita Skikevich (Ukraine)
J C Y Tang (UK)
Line Underbjerg (Denmark)
Ana Rodriguez (Portugal)
Afrodite Zendeli (Austria)
Maria Zyablitskaya (Russia)
William N Addison (Boston, United States)
Anna E Börjesson (Göteborg, Sweden)
Julia Brun (Paris, France)
Stephanie Catherine Deasey (Baltimore, United States)
Igor Erjavec (Zagreb, Croatia)
Arief Lalmohamed (Bergschenhoek, Netherlands)
Carole Le Henaff (Reims, France)
Silvia Marino (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Michelle M Mcdonald (Westmead, Australia)
Carolina Medina-Gomez (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Sander Pouwels (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Valerie Salazar (St. Louis, United States)
Mieke Sinnesael (Leuven, Belgium)
Julie Talbot (Nantes, France)
Sylvia Thiele (Dresden, Germany)
Serhan Zenger (Boston, United States)
Hou-Feng Zheng (Montreal, Canada)
Mohd Din Aisha (Sungai Buloh, Malaysia)
Mattia Capulli (L’Aquila, Italy)
Petra Juffer (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Ana López-Herradón (Madrid, Spain)
Alireza Moayyeri (London, United Kingdom)
Martina Rauner (Dresden, Germany)
Philip Riches (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Antonia Sophocleous (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Hanna Taipaleenmaki (Worcester, United States)
Marta Aido, (Berlin, Germany)
Martin Biosse-Duplan, (Boston, United States)
Ching-Lung Cheung, (Hong Kong, China)
Emmanuelle David, (Nantes, France)
Andrea Del Fattore, (Ciampino, Italy)
Gabriel Galea, Bristol, (United Kingdom)
Kristen Georgiou, (Adelaide, Australia)
Celia Gregson, (Bristol, United Kingdom)
Abbas Jafari, (Odense, Denmark)
Petra Juffer, (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Rishikesh Kulkarni, (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Liesbet Lieben, (Leuven, Belgium)
Blandine Poulet, (London, United Kingdom)
Tanja Sikjaer, (Aarhus c, Denmark)
Farzin Takyar, (Melbourne, Australia)
Antoon van Lierop, (Leiden, Netherlands)
Elisabeth Wehr, (Graz, Austria)
Janneke Witteveen, (Leiden, Netherlands)
Su-Mei, Xiao, (Hong Kong, China)
Ayse Zengin, (Darlinghurst, Australia)
Ashild Bjornerem (Tromsø, Norway)
Marta Capannolo (L’Aquila, Italy)
Martha Castano Betancourt (Schiedam, Netherlands)
Graziana Colaianni (Bari, Italy)
Kosuke Ebina (Minoo, Japan)
James Edwards (Nashville, USA)
Karol Estrada (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Marta Hristova (Boston, USA)
Ana Lopez-Herradon (Madrid, Spain)
Alireza Moayyeri (Cambridge, UK)
Isabel Orriss (London, UK)
Martina Pauk (Zagreb, Croatia)
Elke Piters (Edegem, Belgium)
Martina Rauner (Dresden, Germany)
Greetje Renders (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Philip Riches (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Hamid Saeed (Odense, Denmark)
Hiroaki Saito (Boston, USA)
Friederike Schulte (Zurich, Switzerland)
Nicolas Severe (Paris, France)
Mittal Shah (London, UK)
Hanna Taipaleenmäki (Turku, Finland)
Pete Taylor (Swindon, UK)
Marijn Vis (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Antonia García-Martín (Granada, Spain)
Nerea Alonso (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Marloes Bazelier (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Nicolas Bonnet (Geneva, Switzerland)
Mattia Capulli (L’Aquila, Italy)
Adriana Di Benedetto (Bari, Italy)
Marco Eijken (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Michael Ghebre (London, UK)
Celia Gregson (Bristol, UK)
Torben Harsløf (Aarhus, Denmark)
Eric Hesse (Boston, USA)
Lynne Hocking (Aberdeen, Scotland)
Riku Kiviranta (Boston, USA)
Barbara Peruzzi (L’Aquila, Italy)
Antonia Sophocleous (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Tineke Van Geel (Maastricht, Netherlands)