Travel Award
The JCDD Travel Award was launched in 2017, and it is presented every year to encourage junior scientists to present their latest research at academic conferences in the field of cardiovascular medicine, which helps grow their profile. The application process for the JCDD 2025 Travel Award is open from July 2024 to March 2025, and the winner will be announced by the end of May 2025.
The Prize:
– CHF 600;
– A certificate.
Number of Winners: 2
JCDD Travel Award
Application deadline: 31 March 2025
Winner announcement: 31 May 2025
Winner announcement: 31 May 2025
Eligibility and Requirements
– Postdoctoral fellows or PhD students, research fellows;– Plans to attend an international conference in 2025 (oral presentation or poster).
List of Documents for Application
– Information of the conference the applicant is planning to attend and the abstract that will be submitted;– Curriculum Vitae and list of publications;
– Justification letter describing the focus of the research (max. 800 words);
– Letter of recommendation from the supervisor, research director, or department head, which also confirms the applicant’s status.
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Pengyu Zong
UConn John Dempsey Hospital Calhoun Cardiology Center, USA
Sandra Díaz del Moral
INSERM, France
Award Committee
Prof. Thomas Brand
Chairman
Imperial College London
Prof. Dr. Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian
Raffles Neuroscience Centre, Raffles Hospital
Prof. Dr. Martin Schweiger
Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Pediatric Heart Center, Department of Surgery, University Children’s Hospital Zurich
Prof. Paolo Emilio Puddu
Sapienza University of Rome
Winner
Cristiana Dondi
Sanford Burnham Prebys, USA
Tamara Gonzalez-Costa
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, Spain
Award Committee
Dr. Maurice J B van den Hoff
Chairman
Department of Medical Biology
Dr. Glenn Fishman
NYU School of Medicine
Prof. Dr. giuseppe caminiti
S.Raffaele IRCCS Rome; San Raffaele Open University , 00163 Rome, Italy.
Prof. Antonino S Rubino
University of Enna Kore
Winner
Susanna Cooper
St. George's University of London, UK
Renée Tillie
Maastricht University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Award Committee
Prof. Andy Wessels
Chairman
medical university of south carolina
Dr. Maria Grazia Andreassi
CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology
Prof. Dr. Krzysztof J. Filipiak
Dr. Yeon Hyeon Choe
Prof. Fabio Angeli
Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria, Varese and Department of Medicine and Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, Maugeri Care and Research Institutes - IRCCS Tradate, Varese - Italy
Winner
Colette A. Bichsel
Boston Children’s Hospital, USA
Winner
Jae Gyun Oh
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
