ISN awards nephrology community at WCN’19
The ISN World Congress of Nephrology was also the time to honor the achievements of our community, working together to advance kidney health worldwide. Chosen by ISN members, this year’s ISN award winners were proudly honored in various categories for their commitment to nephrology.
Congratulations to all the winners and many thanks to all ISN members for voting.
Below is a roundup of each award and the 2019 winners.
Melissa Little, Theme Director of Cell Biology at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne (Australia)
Detlef Schlöndorff, The Schlöndorff laboratory
Agnes Borge Fogo, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (USA)
Lilian Jean Kaplan International Prize
York Pei, University of Toronto (Canada)
Bradley K. Yoder, Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical School (USA)
Mehmet Sever, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul University (Turkey)
Raymond Vanholder, Chairman European Kidney Health Alliance and of European Chronic Disease Alliance
Best Basic Science Abstract
Titi Chen, University of Sydney (Australia)
Aruna Rakha Arora, Department of Translational and Regenerative Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh (India).
Best Clinical Abstract
Eugene Chan Yu-hin, Pediatric Nephrology Center, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent,
Princess Margaret Hospital, Hong Kong
Sidy Mohamed Seck Faculty of Health Sciences, University Gaston Berger Saint-Louis, Senegal,
Africa
Oladipo Olujimi Akinkugbe, University of Ibadan (Nigeria)
Central and Eastern Europe
Halima Resic, Medical Faculty University of Sarajevo (Bosnia
and Herzegovina)
Latin America
Edgar Sanclemente, Loma Linda University (Colombia)
NIS and Russia
Valery Pilotovich, Department of Urology and Nephrology, Medical Academy of
Postgraduate Education (Belarus)
Oceania and South East Asia
Supat Vanichakarn, Mission Hospital Dusit, Bangkok (Thailand)
Schrier Award
Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (Malawi) and Barts Health
NHS Trust hospital (UK)
To get an overview of all ISN award past and present, CLICK HERE.
