ESCEO and IOF Grants

The European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis (ESCEO) is pleased to announce four Osteoporosis Fellowship Awards, courtesy of a grant of Amgen.

The intent of these awards is to provide support to eligible institutions to develop and enhance the opportunities for physicians or PhD's training for careers in Osteoporosis.

Recipients will be selected primarily on the basis of the quality of the research proposal outlined in the application. Only one application per fellow may be submitted.

The Scientific Advisory Board of the European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis (ESCEO) will review the applications.

This fourth ESCEO-Amgen Fellowship Awards will be presented during the "Fellowship Awards Ceremony" at IOF WCO-ECCEO10. The recipients will each receive $ 50,000 for 1 year to support their fellowship stipend. (Institutions may be asked to certify that funds will be applied towards stipend only. These funds are non-renewable).

All awards applications and supporting materials must be submitted on or before March 08, 2010 through this website and by mail. Late or incomplete packages will not be considered. Applications will be notified of the committee's decision no later than March 29, 2010.

The European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis (ESCEO) and the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) will present for the first time in 2010 the new Pierre Delmas Prize, with the support of Servier.

Pierre Delmas, Professor of Medecine and Rheumatology at the University of Lyon, France, Director of the INSERM research unit "Pathophysiology of Osteoporosis", was an outstanding scientist who directed essential basic and clinical research in metabolic bone diseases, particulary in osteoporosis and osteoarthritis

He was the Founding President of the IOF

Servier, an independant research-orientated pharmaceutical company with a long history of relationships with researchers and clinicians, particulary in the field of osteoporosis and osteoarthritis, is proud to participate, as sole sponsor, in the creation of the Pierre Delmas Prize.

The Pierre Delmas Prize will be awarded every year to an individual for outstanding and major scientific contributions to the study of bone and mineral diseases, and consists of a grant of € 40 000 and a medal.

The prize Committee will be composed of remarkable Scientists chosen within the IOF Committee of Scientific Advisors and ESCEO Scientific Advisory Board. The first Pierre Delmas Prize will be granted in May 2010 in Florence during the IOF WCO - ECCO Congress

The ESCEO-IOF-ABBH Young Investigator Awards recognize young investigators under the age of 40 for their excellence in bone and mineral research. The award includes a 2,000 Euros honorarium and is given to the lead investigator of the two highest scored abstracts submitted for presentation at the IOF WCO-ECCEO10

The award recipients must:
1) be the first AND presenting author of the abstract
2) less than 40 years old.

The above eligibility criteria include students or trainees who have not yet obtained their doctoral degree. The members of the Program Committee will select the award winners based only on the scientific merit of the abstract. Nominations are not accepted. The winners will be announced on Saturday May 8 during Plenary Session V.

It is expected that part of the honorarium will be used to offset travel expenses and the remainder may be used by the recipient at his/her discretion.

If an individual selected to receive the grant does not present his or her abstract at the meeting, or is found to have not fulfilled eligibility criteria, the award will be cancelled and/or forfeited.