EPOS

European Paediatric Ophthalmological Society

Best Presentation Award for Young Scientists

In 2003 The European Paediatric Ophthalmological Society for the first time awarded the Best Presentation Award for Young Scientists. The award shall be assigned to clinicians and scientists not older than 35 years who will contribute outstanding oral or poster presentations to the annual meeting. Any registered member participating in the annual meeting aged 35 years or less may apply for this award which will be decided upon by the Board of the Society. The actual presentation as well as the response to questions about the paper or poster will be taken into account. The award will be given as a travel grant to the awardees.

Awardees have been so far

• 2012 Elias Adjadj: Treatment of herpes viral retinopathies in babies with severe immune deficiency (poster) Lina Raffa: Central Corneal Thickness, Intraocular Pressure an Ocular Axial Length in moderately to late preterm school-aged children (presentation)
• 2011 Arlette van Sorge, Leiden the Netherlands: The NEDROP study: Incidence and risk factors of ROP (poster)
• 2010 Dr. Konstantinos Aliferis (Overlapping of Alstrôm and Bardet-Biedl Syndrome Early Phenotype Confirmed by Systematic High Throughput Ciliopathy Genes Sequencing)
• 2010 Dr. Catherine Cassiman (Functional and Structural Ophthalmological Outcome in Cryo- or Laser Treated Premature Babies with Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) Between 1989 and 2008)
• 2010 Tobias Wimmer (In Vitro Expression of the Anti-VEGF-F(Ab)-Fragment Ranibizumab)
• 2009 Dr. Mariya Moosajee (Novel pharmacological therapies for ocular coloboma)
• 2009 Arlette Van Sorge (NEDROP: a national inventory on screening for Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP))
• 2008 Alexandra Louise Creavin (Ophthalmic problems in children with Down syndrome: findings from England)
• 2008 Suzanne Yzer (The ocular and olfactory phenotype of LCA patients with mutations in CEP290)
• 2007 Dr. Barbara Leyssens (Treatment of exudative changes in Coat's type retinitis pigmentosa)
• 2007 Maja Šuštar (Full-field and ON-OFF ERG abnormalities in children with CSNB)
• 2007 Dr. Sri Thyagarajan (Cone dystrophies and partial cone dysfunction presenting to Great Ormond StreetHospital for Children)
• 2006 Dr. Charlotte Funnell (Auto-immune Corneal Endotheliopathy)
• 2006 Dr. Elisabeth McKillop (Problems experienced by Children with Cognitive Visual Dysfunction dueto Cerebral Visual Impairment – and the Approaches which Parents HaveAdopted to Deal with these Problem)
• 2006 Dr. Ana Fonseca ( Parry-Romberg syndrome: report of two cases )
• 2005 Tatiana Ciomartan (ROP screening in the prevention of childhood blindness in Romania and proposed local screening guidelines)
• 2005 Michael P. Schittkowski (Prevalence of systemic and ophthalmological anomalies in congenital anophthalmia or microphthalmia)
• 2004 Bodo Janke (Alternative splicing in AIPL1 - implications on function and the mutational spectrum)
• 2004 Dr. Marije Sminia (Ten year follow up of Artisan aphakic intraocular lens implantation in children with traumatic cataract)
• 2004 Dr. Jacqueline van der Spuy (The Leber congenital amaurosis protein AIPL1 modulates the nucleoplasmic distribution of the cell cycle regulator NUB1)
• 2003 Dr. Michael Michaelides (Genetic heterogeneity in the North Carolina macular dystrophy phenotype)
• 2003 Madgdalena Sildatke-Bauer (Monozygotic twins discordant for Duane's syndrome - case study
• 2003 Dr. Viktoria Szabo (Diagnosis of ocular chlamydia trachomatis infection in newborns and children)

Presentation of the Best Presentation Award for Young Scientists at the 2010 Annual Meeting

Presentation of the Best Presentation Award for Young Scientists at the 2009 Annual Meeting