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Young Investigator Awards

Twelve Young Investigator Awards, worth €1000 each, are awarded to researchers who submit abstracts (basic or clinical) to the annual European Congress of Endocrinology (ECE) and receive the highest abstract scores.

This year's Congress was the Joint Congress of ESPE and ESE 'Connecting Endocrinology Across the Life Course'.

Further information on all the Joint Abstract Awards can be found on the Joint Congress 2025 website.

Applicants must indicate on the abstract form whether they wish to be considered for an ESE Young Investigator Award.

Successful applicants must be within 10 years post-PhD or MD and a member of ESE at the time of the Congress. 

The awards are based on the achieved abstract scores, as determined by the ECE abstract review committee; the final decision is made by the ECE Programme Organising Committee.

2025 Winners

  • Merisa Abusdal (Norway): The roles of PDLIM1 in silent corticotroph adenomas aggressiveness
  • Anna Angelousi (Greece): Immune-related hypophysitis and imaging: A distinct type of hypophysitis? 
  • Muhammad Fahad Arshad (UK): Severe Hyponatraemia in Europe: Insights into Endocrinologists’ Clinical Practices and Perspectives
  • Valeria Citterio (Italy): Pathophysiology of osteoporosis (PATHOS Study): role of hidden cortisol excess (HidHyCo) and its predictors in bone fragility, preliminary results
  • Álvaro Flores-Martínez (Spain): Exploration of Pituitary Stem Cells heterogeneity and their contribution in Gonadotroph Tumors
  • Lucía Iglesias García (Argentina): Nuclear Factor I/B Interaction with PROP1 and its Role in Pituitary Cell Differentiation
  • James Kaufman-Cook (UK): SDHB loss in anterior pituitary embryonic progenitors and postnatal SOX2+ stem cells is insufficient to drive pituitary tumorigenesis and results in pituitary hypoplasia in mice
  • Tinatin Kutchukidze (Georgia): Smart Menstrual Health Monitoring Patch: A non-invasive AI-driven Solution for Cycle tracing
  • Alessandra Mangone (Italy): Clinical Predictors of Treatment Response in Advanced Adrenocortical Carcinoma: a multicentre ENSAT study
  • Mikkel Thor Olsen (Denmark): In-hospital diabetes management by a diabetes team using insulin algorithms with continuous glucose monitoring or point-of-care testing in patients with type 2 Diabetes: the DIATEC RCT
  • Cem Sulu (Turkey): The Personality Profile and Neurostructural Associations in Patients with Cushing’s Disease
  • Zhuolun Sun (Germany): Single-Cell, Single-Nucleus, and Spatial Transcriptomics Reveal the Cellular Atlas and Developmental Mechanisms of Aldosterone-Producing Micronodules and Adenomas

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