Prize Outline

Title
The Aesculap EANS Research Prize

Awarded
Annually

Chairman of the EANS Research Committee
Peter Hutchinson, MD, UK

Past Chairmen
2003-2007: António José de Carvalho Gonçalves Ferreira, MD, Portugal
1999-2003: Yucel Kanpolat, MD, Turkey
1995-1999: Johannes Schramm, MD Germany

• Eligible are neurosurgeons under the age of 40
• Either fully trained or still in the course of their training
• Must be members of one of the national societies of the EANS or working in one of the countries member of the EANS
• Manuscripts submitted should contain research work − clinical or laboratory − relevant to the field of neuroscience
• Author should make a declaration stating that she/he has performed most (more than 50%) of the work, and that such work was made mainly in Europe
• Letter to this effect from the candidate’s head of department should be attached
• Manuscripts that have been submitted for publication during the same calendar year as well as unpublished studies are accepted for evaluation
• Format and type of manuscript must be comparable to those presented for publication in Acta Neurochirurgica
• Applicant must send his/her entry in the form of a pdf document of a maximum size of 5 megabytes with a brief Curriculum Vitae by the 15th December 2008 to Bea Riley.

see Application Process