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Rafaelsen Young Investigators Award

In 1986 Ole Rafaelsen and William Bunney were instrumental in establishing a CINP programme supporting the attendance of young scientists at the 15th CINP Congress. That programme was posthumously named the Rafaelsen Young Investigators Award to honour Dr. Rafaelsen, who died in 1987.

The recipients of the upcoming Award will be chosen by an international scientific jury in March 2025. Three awardees will be selected and presented with the award consisting of a certificate, a USD 200 cash stipend, three nights of accommodation during the Congress in Melbourne and complimentary registration fee for the CINP-AsCNP2025 Joint Congress. Selected recipients will also have the opportunity to present their abstract orally as part of the Rafaelsen Symposium.

Guidelines

  • All applications must be supported by an active full CINP Member. It is not sufficient if the applicant is a CINP member.
  • Applicants must be working within the area of neuropsychopharmacology.
  • Applicants need to have obtained a PhD or MD within the last 10 years (not earlier than 2014).
  • The applicant commits to participate with an oral presentation at the CINP-AsCNP 2025 Joint Congress, if elected recipient of the award.
  • Notification on the Award Winners will be communicated in March 2025.

Requirements

  • The applicant’s curriculum vitae including a list of publications
  • 500-word statement which summarizes the applicant’s current work activity
  • The supporter’s full name and signature on the 500-word statement. The supporter needs to be an active full CINP Member.
  • Copy of PhD certificate
  • Submitted abstract

Applications are now open. You can apply for the award by submitting an abstract for CINP-AsCNP 2025 HERE. During the abstract submission you will have the possibility to choose the award, if you match the above criteria.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: November 15, 2024

2024 Winners

  • Robyn Brown
  • Chieh-Hsin Lin
  • Sophie E. Holmes

Due to a very high number of entries of exceptional quality, the following applicants have been awarded a CINP 2024 Excellent Presentation Award:

  • Ying Han
  • Ravi Das
  • Marie Spies
  • Zijun Wang

2023 Winners

  • Dominique Endres
  • Matthew Girgenti
  • Rebecca Strawbridge

2022 Winners

  • Sameer Jauhar, United Kingdom
  • Jennifer Phillips, Canada
  • Miriam Schiele, Germany

2020 Winners

  • Chandni Hindocha, United Kingdom
  • Lucie Bartova, Austria
  • Millie Rincón-Cortés, USA
  • Hon-Cheong So, China
  • Zachary Gerring, Australia
  • Pia Baldinger-Melich, Austria
  • Giselli Scaini, USA

2019 Winners

  • Fredrik Hieronymus, Sweden
  • Bin Zhang, China
  • Zheng Chang, Sweden

2018 Winners

  • Chiara Bortolasci, Brazil
  • Chie Shimmoto-Mitsuyma, Japan
  • Felipe Gomez, USA
  • Gabriel Rodrigo Fries, Brazil
  • Georgios Schortsauitis, Switzerland
  • Giovanni Abrahao Salum, Brazil
  • Ji-Seou Seo, USA
  • Mauish Kumar Jha, India
  • Petru Naudé, South Africa
  • Will Lawn, United Kingdom

2017 Winners

  • Fernando Caravaggio, Canada

2016 Winners

  • Anand Guruajan, Ireland
  • Daniel Quintana, Australia
  • Divya Mehta, Australia
  • Dawn Ionsecu, USA
  • Gregor Gryglewski, Austria
  • Giulia Treccani, Italy
  • Jee Hyun Kim, Australia
  • Jiamei Lian, Australia
  • Jihook Cha, Japan
  • Tom Freeman, United Kingdom

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