Awards for Articles and Presentations

ISPD presents the following awards annually for research that has been published or presented.

• Joe Leigh Simpson Award for Best Early Career Investigator awarded to a presenter at ISPD's international conference
• The Malcolm Ferguson-Smith Early Career Researcher Award , in connection with ISPD's official journal, Prenatal Diagnosis

   

Joe Leigh Simpson Award for Best Early Career Investigator

At the international conference, ISPD recognizes the work of the best early career investigator with the Joe Leigh Simpson Award. This award was previously named the ISPD Young Scientist Award, and renamed to honor Joe Leigh Simpson, the Founding President of ISPD.

2023 Recipient: Cell Free DNA Fragmentation Infers Single Cell Type Contributions in Pregnancy (EC-2)
Kate E. Stanley, PhD, Belgium (left) with Joe Leigh Simpson (right) in Edinburgh

Joe Leigh Simpson Award History

                   

The Malcolm Ferguson-Smith Early Career Researcher Award

In 2007, Prenatal Diagnosis, the official journal of ISPD, established The Malcolm Ferguson-Smith Early Career Researcher Award. In recognition of the Journal’s Founding Editor, an annual prize is awarded to the best original paper published in a given volume by an early career investigator (within 5 years of final qualification).

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Recipient for 2022 (Volume 42): Lessons learnt from fetal exome sequencing service.
Natalie J. Chandler, Elizabeth Scotchman, Rhiannon Mellis, Vijaya Ramachandran, Rowenna Roberts, Lyn S. Chitty.

Malcolm Ferguson-Smith Award History