Abstract Awards

The Van Bekkum Award is the most prestigious EBMT award for the best abstract submitted to the physician’s programme, and is selected by the EBMT Board of Association and Scientific Committee. The winning abstract will be presented during the Presidential Symposium.

The award of 5,000€ is supported by the EBMT.

The Jon van Rood award was created in the name of the late Jon van Rood, a long active immunologist who made seminal discoveries and observations in the field of cell and tissue transplants, in particular haematopoietic cell transplantation. While haematopoietic cell transplantation remains a historical and canonical form of cell transplant and in many of its applications in immunotherapy of haematological malignancies, many recent developments have led to the approval and commercialization of innovative industry-manufactured medicinal products, some of which have resulted in the engineering of autologous or allogeneic immune effector cells with clinical efficacy in some disease subsets. To recognise these important changes, the scope of the Jon van Rood Award is now expanded to cover immunological aspects of haematopoietic cell transplantation as well as new developments in the design and evaluation of immune effector cell therapies.

EBMT Cellular Therapy & Immunobiology Working Party (CTIWP) is pleased to offer this prestigious (5,000€) award for outstanding contributions in the field of haematopoietic transplantation immunology, immunogenetics, tolerance, graft-vs-leukaemia/tumour effects, immune monitoring and development of innovative therapeutic approaches based on the engineering of immune effector cells. The selection will be undertaken by a distinguished international jury.

The award will be presented on an annual basis during the Cellular Therapy and Immunobiology Working Party Scientific Session at the EBMT Annual Meeting.

Important information to qualify for the award:

• The paper should be published or accepted for publication during the year 2024.
• The candidates should not be older than 40 years on December 31st, 2024.
• The Award is restricted to the first author of the paper or one of the first co-authors with equal contribution*. (*In case of equal contribution/shared first authorship, a letter of approval of the other co-first author should be submitted.)
• The Academic paper is in English.

Application guidelines

Applications for the award should include the following:

• Letter of application/ motivational letter (maximum one page)
• Curriculum vitae (CV) of the applicant (including year of birth)
• Academic paper

Please send your application through this link:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JJvanRood2025

Deadline to apply: 17th January 2025

The award of 5,000€ is generously supported by the EBMT with an unrestricted educational grant.

The aim of this award is to increase the level of basic science at the meeting and in particular young investigators are encouraged to submit their work. The prize-winning abstract will be selected from the top-scored physician's abstracts by the EBMT Board of Association and Scientific Committee. The winning abstract will be presented during the Presidential Symposium.

The award of 2,500€ is supported by the EBMT.

This award is for the commemoration of Jian-Jian Luan who worked as study coordinator for the EBMT Lymphoma Working Party and who tragically died in an alpine hiking accident. 

The aim of the award is to encourage research in order to improve the results of lymphoma treatment by transplantation strategies. Both experimental and clinical work are eligible. All authors submitting a lymphoma abstract will be automatically considered for the Jian-Jian Luan Award. Lymphoma Working Party studies or studies by Lymphoma Working Party subcommittee chairs as well as published material will not be considered.

The prize-winning abstract will be selected from the top-scored abstracts submitted under the topics CAR-based Cellular Therapy – Preclinical (3), CAR-based Cellular Therapy – Clinical (4), and Lymphoma and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (26) by a scientific committee headed by the Chairperson of the Lymphoma Working Party.

The Award of 1,000€ is donated by the EBMT Lymphoma Working Party and presented orally at the Lymphoma Working Party session.

Two awards are offered for the best physician poster presentations (one Best Clinical Poster and one Best Science Poster).

Each 1,000£ award is sponsored by Springer Nature, and the awards will be announced at the Closing Session.

The EBMT is pleased to offer ten special awards for the best abstracts accepted for oral presentation, and five special awards for the best abstracts accepted for poster presentation at the 51st Annual Meeting of the EBMT.

The prize-winning abstracts will be selected from the top-scored abstracts submitted by young physicians (under 35 years). The awards will be presented during the Closing Session.

Each awardee will be presented with a 500€ prize supported by the EBMT.

The Nurses Group is pleased to announce the following abstract awards:

- Best Adult Oral Presentation Abstract Award 

- Best Paediatric Oral Presentation Abstract Award 

- Best Research Oral Presentation Abstract Award 

- Best Adult Poster Presentation Abstract Award 

- Best Paediatric Poster Presentation Abstract Award 

Finalists will be selected for presentation from the submitted abstracts, and all awards will be announced as a part of the Nurses Group Closing Session.

Each 500€ award is supported by the EBMT Nurses Group.

The Pharmacists Committee is pleased to announce that the three best pharmacists' abstracts will be awarded with a prize of 300€, 200€ and 150€ respectively. The awards will be presented at the Pharmacists Day.

These prizes are supported by the EBMT Pharmacist Committee.

The EBMT Quality Managers Committee is pleased to announce that the best Quality Management abstract will be awarded a prize of 300€. The awarded abstract will be presented during the Quality Management Day.

This award is supported by JACIE.