The ISGC is a not-for-profit consortium that is also committed to supporting our researchers as best we can. Donations are utilised to provide some support to early career researchers, researchers from lower to middle income countries to assist them to attend Workshops, and Women in Science. This page is a place to highlight and celebrate the impact some of these awards have had on the researchers and will be updated over time to eventually showcase all of our Awardees.
Professor Ynte Ruigrok, Michelle Sale Award, ISGC Workshop Bordeaux, 2022.
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Receiving this prestigious award was a great honor for me personally, as it served as a significant recognition of my work. However, more, importantly, it also represents an acknowledgment of the collective efforts of our team within the Intracranial Aneurysm working group, which we established within the ISGC. This award has helped attracting enthusiastic new researchers and together, we continue to develop innovative projects aimed at unraveling the genetics of intracranial aneurysms and aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, with the ultimate goal of improving patient care for those affected by these conditions”.
Associate Professor Alexis Simpkins. Best Poster, St Louis, 2019.
“Getting the award was a huge accomplishment. I was really excited about my research, but getting the award gave me the recognition needed to highlight the importance of my research to my institutional leadership and future funding mechanisms. In fact, since then, I have been successful in obtaining several grants that have further supported my work, confirming my findings in larger patient datasets. We are now even closer to fully translating my research back to the bedside with novel therapeutics”.
Clinical Assistant Professor Keon-Joo Lee, recipient of ISGC Investigator Travel Award, St Louis, 2019.
“I received the ISGC International Investigator Travel Scholarship award for the GENEYAS project, a targeted gene panel study for early-onset stroke. This recognition played a crucial role in motivating our team to push forward in stroke genomics research. Since then, we have collected NGS data from over 4,000 early-onset stroke patients and are now conducting the GENESIS-K project, a large-scale pharmacogenomics study involving approximately 10,000 acute stroke patients. The award has been instrumental in fostering our efforts to advance precision medicine in stroke care.”
Previous award winners
| Year | Award | Name, location |
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2019 |
International Travel Scholarship |
Keon-Joo Lee, Seoul, South Korea |
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Career Development Scholarship |
Michael Chong, Ontario, Canada |
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Michele Sale Award |
Jemma Hopewell, Oxford, UK |
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2018 |
International Travel Scholarship |
Liisa Tomppo, Helsinki, Finland |
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Career Development Scholarship |
Jaeyoon Chung, Boston, MA, USA |
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2017 |
Travel Scholarship |
Rufus Akinyemi, Ibadan, Nigeria |
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2016 |
Travel Scholarship |
Sara Pulit, Utrecht, Netherlands |
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2015 |
Travel Scholarship |
Stacie Demel, Cincinnati, USA |
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2014 |
Travel Scholarship |
Ganesh Chauhan, Bangalore, India |
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2013 |
Travel Scholarship |
Guido Falcone, New Haven, CT, USA |
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2012 |
Travel Scholarship |
Femke van ‘t Hof, Utrecht, Netherlands |
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2011 |
Travel Scholarship |
Jennifer Majersik , Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
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Travel Scholarship |
Stephen Williams, Charlottesville, VA, USA |
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2010 |
Travel Scholarship |
Sharyl Martini, Houston, TX, USA |
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Travel Scholarship |
Mandip Singh Dhamoon, New York, NY, USA |