Awards

At its biennial international conferences, the European Society for Microcirculation (ESM) sponsors a number of awards to support researchers at all stages of their career. The following awards will be given during the Biennial Meeting of the European Society for Microcirculation 2025 (ESM 2025), to be held in Szeged, Hungary between May 19-22, 2025.


The Malpighi Award and Lecture

This is the most prestigious award of the European Society for Microcirculation (ESM). It is given to an individual with an internationally outstanding reputation in any field of microcirculation and microvascular research. The individual will deliver the prestigious Malpighi Lecture at the forthcoming ESM meeting in Szeged, Hungary, May 19-22, 2025 and will receive the Gold Malpighi Medal and a life-long Membership of the ESM.
The Malpighi Prize Committee is constituted by: the President, the Secretary-General, the Treasurer, one other representative of the ESM Executive Committee and the last two Awardees (if available). Voting is by secret ballot.

Nomination: Applications should consist of a letter of recommendation from the sponsor together with a two pages curriculum vitae including a list of the 20 most important publications (in one Pdf file). Nominations should be sent to the Secretary General (Henning.Morawietz@uniklinikum-dresden.de) and copied to the President of ESM (farkas.eszter.1@med.u-szeged.hu)

The deadline for nomination is January 31st, 2025.


Journal of Vascular Research/European Society for Microcirculation Award and Lecture

The Journal of Vascular Research (JVR/ESM) Award and Lecture aims to spotlight important and growing fields of research, with high impact for vascular biology and the microcirculation with the goal of giving an award to one of the most prominent researchers in the field.

Nomination is organized by Brant Isakson, Editor of JVR (brant@virginia.edu)


Congress Travel Awards for Early Career Investigators

Together with the submission of an abstract for ESM 2025 early career scientists (student or less than 5 years postdoctoral experience) who are members of ESM may apply for a travel award of 600 Euro (8 awards are available), which will cover the registration fee and support their travel costs. Travel awards will be given on the basis of the quality of the submitted abstracts.

This Travel Award is organized and awarded by the Congress Award Committee.
The deadline for application will be the abstract deadline for the Congress – Spring 2025.


Poster Awards for Early Career Investigators

During the ESM 2025 congress five such awards (100 Euro each), will be given for the best posters. Poster Prizes are organized and awarded by the Congress Award Committee at the Congress.