ISB AWARDS

Note:

• Authors cannot compete in both the Clinical Biomechanics Award and the Young Investigator Award.
• Detailed awards information can be found at the official ISB Awards pages.

Young Investigator Award (YIA)

Sponsors

• Poster: Organizers of the previous ISB conference
• Podium: Journal of Biomechanics, Elsevier Science Ltd.

Award

• There are two awards, one for the best podium presentation and one for the best poster presentation. The award recipients are offered a certificate and a monetary award of US$ 750.
• A short biography with an outline of the professional background of the recipients is published in the ISB Newsletter.

Requirements

• Candidates must be first author of an abstract submitted for presentation at the ISB conference.
• Candidates must be younger than 35 years of age at the time of the ISB conference.
• Candidates must have made the major contribution to the research described in the abstract.
• Candidates must personally present the paper (whether podiuml or poster) at the ISB conference.

Time schedule

• Submission of abstract to Conference Secretariat: 15 February 2009

Clinical Biomechanics Award (CBA)

Sponsor

• Clinical Biomechanics, Elsevier Science Ltd.

Award

• The winning paper is published as the ISB Clinical Biomechanics Award paper in Clinical Biomechanics (subject to a normal peer review process if required).
• The first author of the winning paper receives a certificate and a monetary award of US$ 1250.

Requirements

Any scientist may submit an abstract for the award, except the members of the ISB Executive Council. The abstract must describe a study related to a clinical problem and contain some sort of biomechanical analysis pertaining to the clinical problem. From the abstracts submitted, 5 are selected and nominated for the award. The authors of the 5 selected abstracts are requested to submit a full length paper prepared according to the guidelines of Clinical Biomechanics. The paper must be entirely original, not published at the time of the ISB-congress nor submitted for publication to any Book or Journal other than Clinical BiomechanicsA jury will evaluate the full papers and select the winning paper. The first author of the winning paper is invited to give an oral presentation of the winning paper at the Congress in a plenary session.

Time schedule

• Submission of abstracts to Conference Secretariat: 15 February 2009

Promising Young Scientist Award (PYSA)

Award

• The winner receives a certificate and a monetary award of US$ 5000, to be used for scientific purposes.
• The winner is invited to give a plenary presentation of 30 min. at the ISB-conference 2 years later, in which he or she gives an account of research to which the award money has contributed. The registration fee for that conference is waived, with the financial loss being absorbed by the organizers of the upcoming conference.

Requirements

• The award is to recognize superior research performed in a single area of Biomechanics.
• The candidates must be member of the ISB.
• The candidates must be at a relatively early stage of their scientific careers in Biomechanics (i.e. not more than 5 years post-Ph.D.).
• Each candidate must identify at least two first author full articles in peer reviewed scientific journals that he or she has written in a single area of Biomechanics and provide interpretative summaries describing the contribution of each article.

Time schedule

• Submission of applications to the jury chairman