Awards

Early Investigators Awards

These awards provide monetary support to assist in the development of early career investigators and recognition of their accomplishments in areas of general endocrinology. Recipients will receive a monetary award, one-year complimentary membership to the Society, one-year complimentary access to the Society's online journals, public recognition of research accomplishments in various Society platforms.

Supported by the Endocrine Society

Congratulations to the 2021 Early Investigator Award recipients!

Eligibility Criteria

Must be a member of the Endocrine Society
Hold an MD, PhD, or MD/PhD
Be a 3rd or 4th year post-doctoral fellow or a newly-appointed faculty within 10 years from the terminal degree granting date
Only one nomination per research mentor
Willingness to write an article for a future edition in Endocrine News and/or volunteer for other opportunities within the Endocrine Society

Application Process

Complete the online application form (Please indicate area of research on the application form)
Verification of training status (i.e. copy of degree or certificate)
Nominee's CV or Biosketch
Summary of the endocrine-related research conducted by the nominee (2 page maximum) and copy of top publications
Two (2) letters of recommendation from research mentor and department chair

Comments

Please scan all supporting documents into one PDF file when submitting your application.

Program Timeline

November 16, 2020 - Application Cycle Open
January 5, 2021 - Application Deadline
February 18, 2021 - Award Notification Sent

Award Winners

2021

Recipient	Institution
Himanshu Arora	University of Miami
Ana Aulinas	Hospital de Sant Pau
Athanasios Bikas	Brigham and Women's Hospital
Juan Brito	Mayo Clinic
Manuel D. Gahete	University of Cordoba

2020

Recipient	Institution
Mehmet Furkan Burak	Harvard School of Public Health
Dionysios Chartoumpekis	Lausanne University Hospital
Hisham Mohammed	University OF ADELAIDE
Hongxia Ren	Indiana University
Domenico Trico	University of Pisa

2019

Recipient	Institution
Caroline Gorvin	University of Birmingham
Joanna Spencer-Segal	University of Michigan
Mary Ellen Vajravelu	Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Monica Laronda	Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Subhamoy Dasgupta	Roswell Park Cancer Institute

2018

Recipient	Institution
Aaron Leong	Massachusetts General Hospital
Jarrad Scarlett	University of Washington
Jose Cordoba-Chacon	University of Illinois at Chicago
Krystle Frahm	University of Pittsburgh
Matthew Sikora	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

2017

Recipient	Institution
Amin Ardestani	University of Bremen
Andrea Palermo	University Campus Bio-Medico, Roma
Anne Bantle	University of Minnesota
Bharath Mani	Univerisity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Charu Baskaran	Massachusetts General Hospital
Emily Sims	Indiana University School of Medicine
Ernesto Maddaloni	University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome
Kavaljit Chhabra	University of Michigan
Konstantinos Toulis	AHEPA University Hospital
Kyoung MIn Kim	Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
Laura Ditchell	Massachusetts General Hospital
Marc Gregory Yu	Phillipine General Hospital
Marco Medici	Erasmus Medical Center
Maria Perez Millan	CONICET
Marlene Chakhtoura	American University of Beirut-Lebanon
Matthew Lynes	Joslin Diabetes Center
Mauricio Dorfman	UW Medicine at South Lake Union
Natalie Shaw	NIEHS
Petter Bjornstad	Children's Hospital Colorado
Phillip Wong	Hudson Institute of Medical Research
Teresa Mezza	Catholic University, Rome
Vibha Singhal	Massachusetts General Hospital

2016

Recipient	Institution
Jose Donator Jr, PhD	USP
Melanie Schorr, MD	Massachusetts General Hospital
Shannon Stephens, PhD	University of California San Diego
Yi Fan, DDS	Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Abby Fleisch	Boston Children's Hospital
Ada Cheung	Austin Health
Adina Turcu	University of Michigan
Ashley Shoemaker	Vanderbilt University
Christine Swanson	University of Colorado
Deepak H. Balani	Massachusetts General Hospital
Giovanna Muscogiuri, MD, PhD	Federico II University
Grace Huang	Brigham and Women's Hospital
Hanne Hoffmann	UCSD
Jeffrey Roizen	The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Jessica Devin, MD	Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Joanne Ngeow	National Cancer Centre Singapore
Kalpana Acharya Duwaidi, PhD	Wellesley College
Kanakadurga Singer, MD	University of Michigan
Kelly Lauter Roszko, MD, PhD	Massachusetts General Hospital
Kristen Vella	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Lynn Yee	Northwestern University
Matthew Quinn, PhD	NIH-NIEHS
Melanie Cree Green	Children's Hospital Colorado
Nisha Nigil Haroon, DM	Northern Ontario School of Medicine
Samar El Khoudary	Graduate School of Public Health University of Pittsburgh
Shruthi Mahalingaiah	Boston University School of Medicine
Suman Srinivasa, MD, MS	Massachusetts General Hospital
Wojciech Blogowski	Department of Internal Medicine, University of Zielona Gora

2015

Recipient	Institution
Ana Paula Abreu, MD, PhD	Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Anand Vaidya, MD, MMSc	Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Andre Faria, MD, PhD	Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo Medical School
Angela Leung, MD	UCLA
Aritro Sen, PhD	University of Rochester
Aviva Sopher, MD, MS	Columbia University Medical Center
Brian DeBosch, MD, PHD	Washington University
Christopher Coss, PhD	The Ohio State University
Juan Nicola, PhD	National University of Córdoba, Argentina
Kristin Stanford, PhD	Joslin Diabetes Center/Harvard Medical School
Laura Torchen, MD	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Luke Remage-Healey, PhD	University of Massachusetts Amherst
Marla Lujan, PhD	Cornell University
Ramakrishna Kommagani, PhD	Baylor College of Medicine
Zeynep Madak Erdogan, PhD	University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

2014

Recipient	Institution
Andrew Dauber	Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Houda Benlhabib	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Lily Chao	Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Mathieu Ferron	Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal
Sheng Wu	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

2013

Recipient	Institution
Brian J Feldman, MD, PhD	Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
Hideo Makimura, MD, PhD	Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Massachussetts General Hospital
Jennifer Hill, PhD	University of Toledo College of Medicine
Joshua Thaler, MD, PhD	University of Washington
Michael T Sellix, PhD	University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Richard D Wainford, PhD, FAHA	Boston University School of Medicine
Shivatra Chutima Talchai, PhD	Chulalngkorn University
Victor Navarro, PhD	Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Zhaoyu Li, PhD	Mayo Clinic

2012

Recipient	Institution
Kathleen Page, MD	University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
Kevin Pfleger, PhD	Western Australian Institute for Medical Research and The University of Western Australia

2011

Recipient	Institution
Madson Q. Almeida, MD, PhD	Clinics Hospital and Cancer Institute of Sao Paulo, University of Sao Paulo Medical School