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EYES Observership Programmes 2026 Grant Winners announced

EYES Observership Programmes 2026 Winners announced

We are delighted to announce the following recipients of the EYES Observership Programmes 2026 grants, and we congratulate them all.

EYES Clinical Observership Programme (C.O.P.)

Plus  the following self-funded awardees:    

·       Dr Ingrid-Ioana Herscovici, (Romania) 

·       Dr Angelica Marie Real, (Philippines) 

·       Dr Ivana Cekić, (Serbia) 

·       Dr Aslihan Pekmezci, (Turkey) 

·       Dr Satyavamsi Gadde, (India) 

·       Dr Pedro Arthur da Rocha Ribas, (Brazil) 

·       Miss Clara Pavia, (Brazil) 

·       Dr Oriana Pelineagra, (Romania) 

·       Dr Giulia Bovo, (Italy) 

·       Dr Stefania-Alexandra Bunceanu, (Romania) 

·       Dr Miruna-Viorela Nacu, (Romania) 

·       Dr Nikolina Vucenovic, (Croatia) 

·       Mrs Tarcau Otilia, (Romania) 

·       Dr Chrysoula Mytareli, (Greece) 

·       Dr Eleonora Sargentini, (Italy) 

·       Dr Dario Messetti, (Italy) 

·       Dr Alessandro Fanti, (Italy) 

·       Dr Georgios Christantoniou, (Greece) 

·       Miss Maria Chrysoula Tatarida Palla, (Greece) 

·       Miss Carmin Puente de la Vega, (Spain) 

·       Dr Francesca Paglia, (Italy) 

·       Dr Ia Kavtiashvili, (Georgia) 

·       Dr Omneya Abdelkarem, (Egypt) 

·       Dr Rebecca Caffagni, (Italy) 

·       Dr Elena Diana Martiniuc, (Romania) 

·       Dr Ana Kakhiani, (Georgia) 

·       Dr Barbora Pavlovič Bačkorová, (Slovakia) 

·       Dr Bruna Pimentel, (Portugal) 

·       Dr Chiara Sola, (Italy) 

EYES Research Observership Programme (R.O.P.)

  • Dr Esther García Díez (Spain) - Centre for Pituitary Gland Development and Pituitary Stem Cell Research, King’s College, London, UK. Mentor: Research Associate Dr Cynthia Andoniadou
  • Dr Agata Bryk-Wiązania (Poland) - Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Munich, Germany. Mentors: Professor Martin Reincke with Professor Nicole Reisch
  • Dr Alicja Duquenne (Poland)  - Institut Cochin, Paris, France. Mentors: Professor Jérôme Bertherat and Professor Guillaume Assié.  
  • Mrs Aleksandra Gamrat-Żmuda (Poland) -  Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon university, Endocrinology Department, Reference Centre for Rare Pituitary Diseases, Lyon, France. Mentors: Professor Gerald.  Raverot and Professor Phillipe Bertolino. 
  • Dr Filiz Mercan Sarıdaş (Turkey)   William Harvey Research Institute at Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, UK. Mentors: Professor Márta Korbonits and Professor Lou Metherell.

And the following self-funded awardees:   

·       Dr Evin Bozkur, (Turkey) 

·       Dr Nergis Basmaci, (Turkey) 

·       Miss eleonora Ciocca, (Italy) 

·       Dr Zehra Yagmur Sahin Alak, (Turkey) 

·       Miss Ivona Gizdovic, (Serbia) 

·       Dr Deniz Turkum Atikcan, (Turkey) 

·       Dr Irem Sonmezoglu Kutuk, (Turkey) 

·       Dr Banu Ertürk, (Turkey) 

·       Miss Eirini Biliou, (Greece) 

·       Dr Alina Alzhaxina, (Kazakhstan) 

·       Dr Andjela Boskovic, (Serbia) 

·       Dr Anida Divanovic Slato, (Bosnia and Herzegovina) 

·       Dr Murat Calapkulu, (Turkey) 

·       Dr Ceren Tufan, (Turkey) 

EYES Advanced Research Observership Programme (A.R.O.P.)

  • Miss Dragana Vlahovic, (Serbia) - Division of Molecular Pharmacology, Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Munich, Germany. Mentor: Dr Timo Müller 
  • Dr Otilia Kimpel, (Germany) - Institut Cochin, Paris, France. Mentors: Professor Jérôme Bertherat and Professor Guillaume Assié.
  • Dr Dario De Alcubierre, (Italy) - Maimonides Biomedical Research Institute of Córdoba (IMIBIC), Córdoba, Spain.Mentor: Professor Raúl M. Luque

Applications for the 2027 EYES Observership programmes will open later this year.

Published
15/06/2026
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