Awards

ISPD presents the following three awards. Details on the awards and recipients are below.

• ISPD Pioneer in Prenatal Diagnosis and Therapy Award to recognize leaders who have made major breakthroughs in the field
• Joe Leigh Simpson Award for Best Early Career Investigator awarded to a presenter at ISPD's international conference
• The Malcolm Ferguson-Smith Young Investigator Award, in connection with ISPD's official journal, Prenatal Diagnosis

   

ISPD Pioneer in Prenatal Diagnosis and Therapy Award

ISPD initiated this award in 2018 to recognize annually those who have been leaders and made major breakthroughs in the science and care of prenatal diagnosis and therapy.

The inaugural ISPD Pioneer Award was given to Charles Rodeck (UK) at the 22nd International Conference on Prenatal Diagnosis and Therapy in Antwerp, Belgium, as pictured on the left. President Igna Van den Veyver (USA, left) and Treasurer Antoni Borrell (Spain, right) presented the award to Dr. Rodeck (center).

After receiving the award, Dr. Rodeck gave an address entitled, "The rise and fall of invasive procedures: An intrauterine odyssey."

     

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.

2018 Recipient: Sensitivity of non-invasive prenatal testing for cancer detection and treatment monitoring in pregnant women.

Liesbeth Lenaerts, Belgium (left) with Joe Leigh Simpson (right) in Antwerp, Belgium

Joe Leigh Simpson Award History

                   

The Malcolm Ferguson-Smith Young Investigator Award

In 2007, Prenatal Diagnosis, the official journal of ISPD, established The Malcolm Ferguson-Smith Young Investigator 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 a young investigator (40 years or younger).

Access The Winning Papers

Recipient for 2017 (Volume 37): Germline mosaicism is a pitfall in PGD for X‐linked disorders. Single sperm typing detects very low frequency paternal gonadal mosaicism in a case of recurrent chondrodysplasia punctata misattributed to a maternal origin.
Victoria Viart, Marjolaine Willems, Aliya Ishmukhametova, Fabienne Dufernez, Tal Anahory, Samir Hamamah, Sébastien Schmitt, Mireille Claustres, Anne Girardet

Malcolm Ferguson-Smith Award History