Awards

Early Investigator Awards

These awards provide monetary support to assist in the development of early career investigators and recognition of their accomplishments in areas of general endocrinology. Recipients will receive a $1,000 monetary award after presenting at ENDO, one-year complimentary membership to the Society, one-year complimentary access to the Society's online journals, public recognition of research accomplishments in various Society platforms.  

APPLICATION PERIOD HAS CLOSED. Applicants will be notified by March 2, 2023. Please wait to register for ENDO until you receive a notification. For questions contact [email protected].

Supported by the Endocrine Society

Eligibility Criteria

  • Must be a member of the Endocrine Society
  • Hold an MD, DO, PhD, or MD/PhD, or an international equivalent MBBS, MB, BM
  • Be a 3rd or 4th year post-doctoral fellow or a newly-appointed faculty within 10 years from the terminal degree granting date
  • Only one nomination per research mentor
  • Willingness to write an article for a future edition in Endocrine News and/or volunteer for other opportunities within the Endocrine Society
  • In-person attendance at ENDO 2023 is required to receive the award. The travel award program is not offered virtually.  

Please Note: Members are eligible to receive one travel award or travel reimbursement per meeting. If you are selected for more than one travel award you will receive the higher monetary value.

Application Process

  • Complete the online application form (Please indicate area of research on the application form)
  • Verification of training status (i.e. copy of degree or certificate)
  • Nominee's CV or Biosketch
  • Summary of the endocrine-related research conducted by the nominee (2 page maximum) and copy of top publications
  • Two (2) letters of recommendation from research mentor and department chair

Comments

Please scan all supporting documents into one PDF file when submitting your application.

 

Award Winners

Recipient Institution

 Kotaro Sasaki 

 University of Pennsylvania

 Laura Hernandez-Ramirez

 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

 Louise Gregory

 UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health

 Michael Kalwat

 Indiana Biosciences Research Institute

 P.R. van Dijk

 University Medical Centre Groningen


2022

Recipient

Institution

Omar Bello-Chavolla

Instituto Nacional de Geriatría

Fernando Bril

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Lawrence Kazak

McGill University

Estelle Everett

University of California Los Angeles

Tim Korevaar

Erasmus MC

 

2021

Recipient Institution
Himanshu Arora University of Miami
Ana Aulinas Hospital de Sant Pau
Athanasios Bikas Brigham and Women's Hospital
Juan Brito Mayo Clinic
Manuel D. Gahete University of Cordoba

 

2020

Recipient Institution
Mehmet Furkan Burak   Harvard School of Public Health
Dionysios Chartoumpekis Lausanne University Hospital
Hisham Mohammed University OF ADELAIDE
Hongxia  Ren Indiana University
Domenico Trico  University of Pisa 

 

2019

Recipient Institution
Caroline Gorvin University of Birmingham
Joanna Spencer-Segal University of Michigan
Mary Ellen Vajravelu Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Monica Laronda Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Subhamoy Dasgupta Roswell Park Cancer Institute

 

2018

Recipient Institution
Aaron Leong Massachusetts General Hospital
Jarrad Scarlett University of Washington
Jose Cordoba-Chacon University of Illinois at Chicago
Krystle Frahm University of Pittsburgh
Matthew Sikora University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

 

2017

Recipient Institution
Amin Ardestani University of Bremen
Andrea Palermo University Campus Bio-Medico, Roma
Anne Bantle University of Minnesota
Bharath Mani Univerisity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Charu Baskaran Massachusetts General Hospital
Emily Sims Indiana University School of Medicine
Ernesto Maddaloni University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome
Kavaljit Chhabra University of Michigan
Konstantinos Toulis AHEPA University Hospital
Kyoung MIn Kim Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
Laura Ditchell Massachusetts General Hospital
Marc Gregory Yu Phillipine General Hospital
Marco Medici Erasmus Medical Center
Maria Perez Millan CONICET
Marlene Chakhtoura American University of Beirut-Lebanon
Matthew Lynes Joslin Diabetes Center
Mauricio Dorfman UW Medicine at South Lake Union
Natalie Shaw NIEHS
Petter Bjornstad Children's Hospital Colorado
Phillip Wong Hudson Institute of Medical Research
Teresa Mezza Catholic University, Rome
Vibha Singhal Massachusetts General Hospital

 

2016

Recipient Institution
Jose Donator Jr, PhD USP
Melanie Schorr, MD Massachusetts General Hospital
Shannon Stephens, PhD University of California San Diego
Yi Fan, DDS Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Abby Fleisch Boston Children's Hospital
Ada Cheung Austin Health
Adina Turcu University of Michigan
Ashley Shoemaker Vanderbilt University
Christine Swanson University of Colorado
Deepak H. Balani Massachusetts General Hospital
Giovanna Muscogiuri, MD, PhD Federico II University
Grace Huang Brigham and Women's Hospital
Hanne Hoffmann UCSD
Jeffrey Roizen The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Jessica Devin, MD Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Joanne Ngeow National Cancer Centre Singapore
Kalpana Acharya Duwaidi, PhD Wellesley College
Kanakadurga Singer, MD University of Michigan
Kelly Lauter Roszko, MD, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital
Kristen Vella Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Lynn Yee Northwestern University
Matthew Quinn, PhD NIH-NIEHS
Melanie Cree Green Children's Hospital Colorado
Nisha Nigil Haroon, DM Northern Ontario School of Medicine
Samar El Khoudary Graduate School of Public Health University of Pittsburgh
Shruthi Mahalingaiah Boston University School of Medicine
Suman Srinivasa, MD, MS Massachusetts General Hospital
Wojciech Blogowski Department of Internal Medicine, University of Zielona Gora

 

2015

Recipient Institution
Ana Paula Abreu, MD, PhD Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Anand Vaidya, MD, MMSc Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Andre Faria, MD, PhD Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo Medical School
Angela Leung, MD UCLA
Aritro Sen, PhD University of Rochester
Aviva Sopher, MD, MS Columbia University Medical Center
Brian DeBosch, MD, PHD Washington University
Christopher Coss, PhD The Ohio State University
Juan Nicola, PhD National University of Córdoba, Argentina
Kristin Stanford, PhD Joslin Diabetes Center/Harvard Medical School
Laura Torchen, MD Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Luke Remage-Healey, PhD University of Massachusetts Amherst
Marla Lujan, PhD Cornell University
Ramakrishna Kommagani, PhD Baylor College of Medicine
Zeynep Madak Erdogan, PhD University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

 

2014

Recipient Institution
Andrew Dauber Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Houda Benlhabib University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Lily Chao Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Mathieu Ferron Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal
Sheng Wu Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

 

2013

Recipient Institution
Brian J Feldman, MD, PhD Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
Hideo Makimura, MD, PhD Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Massachussetts General Hospital
Jennifer Hill, PhD University of Toledo College of Medicine
Joshua Thaler, MD, PhD University of Washington
Michael T Sellix, PhD University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Richard D Wainford, PhD, FAHA Boston University School of Medicine
Shivatra Chutima Talchai, PhD Chulalngkorn University
Victor Navarro, PhD Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Zhaoyu Li, PhD Mayo Clinic

 

2012

Recipient Institution
Kathleen Page, MD University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
Kevin Pfleger, PhD Western Australian Institute for Medical Research and The University of Western Australia

 

2011

Recipient Institution
Madson Q. Almeida, MD, PhD Clinics Hospital and Cancer Institute of Sao Paulo, University of Sao Paulo Medical School

 

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