2024 WFSBP Awards Now Open
WFSBP is now accepting Young Investigator Award, Award for Excellence in Education, Lifetime Achievement and Research Prize nominations for the 16th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry. Learn more about each award below and submit nominations by 31 October 2023.
WFSBP Awards Overview
Lifetime Achievement Award:
The WFSBP Lifetime Achievement Award is intended for senior research scientists (MD, PhD or equivalent) whose lifework has significantly influenced today‘s field of biological psychiatry. The Lifetime Achievement Award will include a monetary prize of €1.000 and free registration to the 16th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry.
Award for Excellence in Education:
The WFSBP Award for Excellence in Education is to acknowledge outstanding and innovative education in biological psychiatry including the implementation of new interactive media. The Award for Excellence in Education will include a monetary prize of €1.000 and free registration to the 16th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry.
Research Prize:
The WFSBP Research Prize is intended for WFSBP members (MD, PhD or equivalent) whose current scientific work has had an important impact in the field of clinical and/or basic research in the area of biological psychiatry. The Research Prize will include a monetary prize of €1.000 and free registration to the 16th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry.
Young Investigator Award:
The Young Investigator Award recognizes excellence in the scholarly activity of early career researchers by providing the opportunity to attend the Congress in Istanbul, Türkiye. The Young Investigator Award will include a travel grant of €400 and free registration to the 16th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Robert Post, USA (2019)
Dan Stein, South Africa (2019)
Janusz Rybakowski, Poland (2015)
Michael Trimble, UK (2013)
Florian Holsboer, Germany (2013)
Award for Excellence in Education
Florence Thibaut, France (2017)
Philippe Courtet, France and Konstantinos Fountoulakis, Greece (2015)
Saburo Takahashi, Japan (2013)
Research Prize
Matcheri Keshavan, USA (2019)
Eduard Vieta, Spain (2017)
Rupert Lanzenberger, Austria (2015)
Frederico Duarte Garcia, Brazil (2013)
Award for Scientific Excellence of the
WFSBP Host
Glenda MacQueen, Canada (2019)
Stanley Kutcher, Canada (2019)
Per Bech, Denmark (2017)
Mitsumoto Sato, Japan (2013)
2021 Young Investigator Awardees
Frances Adiukwu, Nigeria
Rakshathi Basavaraju, USA
Yvonne Bouter, Germany
Erine Broecker, South Africa
Dominique Endres, Germany
Giuseppe Fanelli, Italy
Adam Fijtman, USA
Dusan Hirjak, Germany
Dhruva Ithal, India
Aishwariya Jha, India
Katarina Kouter, Slovenija
Anna Linda Leutritz, Germany
Alexander Lourdes Samy, Malaysia
Tina Meller, Germany
Marleen Mitschek, Austria
Sachin Nagendrappa, India
Arpit Parmar, India
Ruth Verity Passchier, South Africa
Gayatri Saraf, Canada
Miriam Schiele, Germany
Georgios Schoretsanitis, Switzerland
Bhagyalakshmi M. Shankarappa, India
Navya Spurthi Thatikonda, India
Douglas Teixeira Leffa, Brazil
Lucy Vanes, United Kingdom