Purpose: To recognise a member of the Young ISHAM community who has made a significant contribution to their field and shows promise as a future key opinion leader.
Selection: Nominations are made from the ISHAM membership. An independent panel judge the applications.
Number awarded: 2 - one in basic mycology and one in clinical mycology
Prize: A certificate, CHF 1,000, a travel grant of CHF 400 to attend the ISHAM Congress and the recipients will be invited to give a short lecture at the Congress
| Recipient (Basic Mycology) | Recipient (Clinical Mycology) | Year of Award |
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Duncan Wilson "Counteracting nutritional immunity – micronutrient scavenging by human fungal pathogens" |
Aleksandra Barac "The fungi on sinonasal mucosa: normal content or silent threat?"
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2018 |
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Ferry Hagen "A retrospective molecular diagnostic study to detect Cryptococcus gattii in formalin fixed paraffin embedded pulmonary coin lesions" |
Frank L van de Veerdonk "Elucidating antifungal host defence via primary immunodeficiencies"
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2015 |
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Clarissa Nobile "The molecular mechanisms of biofilm formation by Candida albicans"
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Stepanie Diezmann "Fungal evolution, phylogeny, population divergence and epidemiology of pathogenic yeasts" |
2012 |