BVKC - Young Investigator Award
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Young Investigator Award

In accordance with our goals to promote research and development in clinical chemistry, as well as continuous education, the Royal Belgian Society of Clinical Chemistry (KBVKC/SRBCC) is proud to announce for the first time the availability of some young investigators grants in clinical chemistry.

These grants will be offered once every two years.
One grant is rewarding a young investigator for an outstanding publication in the field of applied clinical chemistry (work directly useful in clinical practice), and another grant is rewarding the best publication in a field of a more fundamental research in clinical chemistry (work of potential major interest in clinical chemistry).
Both prices will be of 500,00€ each. The selected candidates will receive their prices during the annual meeting of our society).

The criteria and procedure are the following:
  1. The candidate could be a PhD student or a trainee in Laboratory Medicine (Medical Doctor, Pharmacist or Master in Chemistry)
  2. The candidate should be < 35 years by March 15 2009
  3. The candidate should fill out the attached application form, with the name of his mentor supporting the candidature
  4. The candidate or his/her mentor should be member(s) of the KBVKC/SRBCC
  5. The candidate should introduce and briefly summarize his project in a letter of maximum two pages, mailed to the General Secretary of the KBVKC/SRBCC, Herman Nuytten, before March 15 2009. He should join a copy of his/her publication (published in print as first author of an original paper), appearing in an International Journal with impact factor referenced in PubMed.
  6. The publication proposed for the 2009 grant can be from 2007 and 2008.
Please find enclosed the form for your candidature.

Edition 2009 of the Award

We received 9 candidatures (5 in applied and 4 in fundamental clinical chemistry) which were all from an excellent level.

We congratulate the winners of this first edition of our grant.
  1. APPLIED CLINICAL CHEMISTRY: Dr Pieter Vermeersch (UZ Leuven)
    Establishment of reference values for immunoglobulins in the cryoprecipitate.
    Clinical Immunology 2008, 129:360-364
  2. FUNDAMENTAL CLINICAL CHEMISTRY: Ms. Laure Elens (UCL)
    1199G>A and 2677G>A polymorphims of ABCB1 independently affect tacrolimus concentration in hepatic tissue after liver transplantation.
    Pharmacogenetics and Genomics 2007, 17:873-883
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