2022 VPHi Best Thesis Award

Application deadline 30 April 2022 - for theses defended between 1/1/2021 and 31/12/2021

The goal of the Best VPHi Thesis Award in In Silico Medicine is to reward individuals for outstanding achievements during their PhD thesis based on:

  • Capacity or knowledge gap
  • Methodological Approach
  • Research outputs
  • International integration

The award consists of a money prize of 1000 €. The winner will also be invited to give a lecture at the VPH Conference that will be held from the 6th to 9th September 2022 in Porto. The thematic will be “Digital twins for personalized treatment development and clinical trials”. Full information HERE.

An ad hoc award committee, composed by both academia and industry representatives, will be established, chaired by Jerome Noailly (UPF) from the VPHi student committee.

Participation rules: Only theses defended between 1/1/2021 and 31/12/2021 will be considered for the award. Each participant will have to submit:

  • A 4-page curriculum vitae
  • A full overview of publications (journal, conference etc.)
  • A recommendation letter by the candidate’s PhD supervisor detailing why the applicant is a deserving candidate
  • A 2-page research summary including
    • Scientific question addressed in PhD
    • Technologies used/developed
    • The most important research results
    • Novelty
    • Impact
    • Future steps
  • The PhD diploma in pdf format (or a certificate if the diploma has not yet been delivered)
  • A pdf document of the complete final PhD thesis (max 10 MB).

This information will have to be sent by email to: manager@vph-institute.org. Please name all your documents: lastname_name initial_documentname.pdf

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Are you a VPHi student member?

You are considered a rightful student member, if you:

1. Are affiliated to either an ordinary or a supporting member. Please check if your institution is in one of these lists:

  • https://www.vph-institute.org/membership/ordinary.html, www.vph-institute.org/membership/supporting.html
  • If your name does not appear in the membership list of your institution, you will have to activate your membership account. This is completely free of charge and will give you the opportunity to:
    • be included in our member-only mailing list, so that you will be kept informed of all the initiatives available for our members (awards, discounts, events...)
    • appear as a formal VPHi member in our membership list. In order to do so, please go to: https://www.vph-institute.org/register.html Click on "Personal" or "Student" (depending from your status) and select your organisation from the member list. Then fill up your data.

2. Have already applied for a student membership. Your name in this case should appear here: www.vph-institute.org/membership/student.html

If you are not a member and you wish to apply now, please fill up this form to process your application: http://www.vph-institute.org/register.html.

For any further questions, please contact manager@vph-institute.org.

Deadline: The application should be sent by 30 April 2022.



Date: 14/01/2022 | Tag: | News: 1265 of 1633
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