National Scholar Award

Recognition for promising junior level researchers

With this award we identify and nurture promising investigators at a junior level. Among all abstracts accepted for presentation at UEG Week, the highest scoring abstracts per country are chosen.

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Target group

This opportunity is only available for myUEG Young GI Associates.
Among all abstracts accepted for presentation at UEG Week, the highest scoring abstracts per country are chosen.
The award can only be awarded once.

Benefits

National Scholar awardees will receive a guaranteed Travel grant to UEG Week 2025.
National Scholar awardees are highlighted in the online programme of UEG Week 2025.

How it works

While submitting an abstract, you can tick the Travel grant application box. By doing so, you are indicating your interest in becoming a National Scholar awardee.

Among all abstracts accepted for presentation at UEG Week who have ticked this box, the highest scoring abstracts per country are chosen. The presenting author has to also prove that they are a myUEG Young GI Associate via a confirmation system.

Notifications will be sent out in the final week of July 2025.

Awardees 2024

Amine Achemlal, Morocco
Margarette Baldeo, Philippines
Mihaela Birligea, Romania
Vincent Bos, Netherlands
Soran R. Bozorg, Sweden
Krzysztof Budzyn, Poland
Matthias Ceulemans, Belgium
Bonan Chen, Hong Kong
Lee Yoong Elizabeth Chen, Singapore
Yoen Young Chuah, Taiwan
Vidak Coguric, Montenegro
Nina Dominik, Austria
Maria Dzhogova, Bulgaria
Yu Ebisawa, Japan
Menar Ekizce, Germany
Diogo Feijó, Portugal
Melanie Figueroa-Palafox, Mexico
Maya Fischman, Israel
Emilie Flad, Switzerland
Eyad Gadour, Saudi Arabia
Juan Pablo Garcia Marmolejo, Colombia
Sofya Grigoryan, Armenia
David Janelidze, Ukraine
Alzbeta Hujova, Czech Republic
Wiza Iswanti, Indonesia
Hamed Kallel, Tunisia
Venkata Anudeep Katrevula, India
Kai Kauppinen, Finland
Tom Leech, United Kingdom

Galam Leem, South Korea
Qing Li, France
Mladen Maksic, Serbia
Catherine Mcshane, Ireland
Izabela Milanez, Slovenia
Natália Junkes Milioli, Brazil
Tünde Molnár, Hungary
Jamil Mrad, Lebanon
Eakapong Ngamchokwathana, Thailand
Daniele Noviello, Italy
Megan Oleksiw, Canada
Ezekiel Otaegui-Campos, Australia
Miguel Puga-Tejada, Ecuador
Ab Hameed Raina, United Arab Emirates
Danute Razuka-Ebela, Latvia
Mathilde Resell, Norway
Diego Reyes-Placencia, Chile
Leticia Rodríguez-Alcolado, Spain
Aleksejs Sazonovs, Denmark
Yumna Shahid, Pakistan
Cem Simsek, Turkey
Hassan Sinan, United States of America
Irma Siranovic Pongrac, Croatia
Guzal Sobirova, Uzbekistan
Pishoy Sydhom, Egypt
Deimantė Tilindė, Lithuania
Diana Vážanová, Slovakia
Nilanka Wickramasinghe, Sri Lanka
Xiaocun Xing, China