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 Young Investigator 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.

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).

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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