ENS@T Awards

Scientific Awards 2026: (placeholder only!!!) for past years see below (scroll down)!

dear members of ENSAT,

This year the applications are now open for the ENSAT scientific awards corresponding to the established working groups of ENS@T: ACC, APA, NAPACA, PPGL and KIDS.

For the ENSAT scientific awards there are for each of the "classic" working groups 2 awards, one for a clinical paper and one for a basic science paper, and, in addition, one dedicated to the KIDS WG, endowed with each 500 €.

Applicants are asked to provide:

1 - a short cover letter (250 words max) in which the candidate is stating for which of the four main categories (ACC, APA, NAPACA and PPGL) and if for the clinical or basic science award she or he is applying and elaborates what her/his paper brings new to the field

2 - a CV (max one page)

3 - a signed statement by the applicant(s) that all the other co-authors have been informed and agreed with the authors’ application

4 - published/accepted (in this case please include acceptance letter) scientific manuscript (original research, NO REVIEWS) no older then one year old considering from last years' deadline for submission, so not used to apply for an ENSAT award in the past (so probably between September 16th 2024 and July 21st 2025)

all together AS A SINGLE PDF file to ensatweb@gmail.com

The rules for submission are:

- Applicants have to be active members of ENSAT (associated or full members with their membership paid up to date)

- Applicants can apply for only one award per year, independently whether the publications are in different WG, so one in total per year.

- Research has to be carried out primarily in Europe. The scientific work has to be accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal prior to submission. Publication should not have taken place longer than one year before application date (see above). Only original research publications (NO reviews) are allowed.

- Applicants should be within 15 years of receipt of their doctoral title (PhD or MD) at the time of application. PhD or MD students are also eligible and encouraged to apply. No more than two applicants are allowed to apply per paper. Collaborators (e.g. co-authors of a manuscript) not applying for the award must have provided the applicants with their consent before the application (see above).

Submission are open until July 21st at midnight.

The winners will be divulged and the prize certificates will be handed over during a special session of the 2025 ENSAT Meeting in Belgrade, Serbia (so the candidates have to be present at the meeting to receive the award).

We are looking forward to your applications!

In addition to the ENSAT scientific awards for the best publication in the field there will be further awards on site in Belgrade:

-Poster awards: poster sessions with 1 prize/session

-Oral communications prizes will also be handed out on site.

The ENSAT Executive Committee

Scientific Awards 2025

ENSAT Scientific Awards

Bruno Allolio Scientific Awards for ACC research

• Emre S Saygili, Çanakkale, Turkey, with the paper: "Machine learning-based survival prediction tool for adrenocortical carcinoma" DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgaf096

• James Pittaway, London, UK, with the paper: "Dlk1 is a novel adrenocortical stem/progenitor marker that predicts malignancy in adrenocortical carcinoma"DOI: 10.1002/cac2.70012 

ENSAT Scientific Awards for APA research

• Bálint Vékony, Budapest, Hungary, with the paper: "Circulating miRNAs and machine learning for lateralizing primary aldosteronism" DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.124.23418

ENSAT Scientific Awards for NAPACA research

• Onnicha Suntornlohanakul, Birmingham, UK, with the paper: "Presentation and management of patients with adrenal masses: a large tertiary centre experience"DOI: 10.1093/ejendo/lvae131
• Antoan Stefan Šojat, Belgrade, Serbia, with the paper: "How ready are endocrine scientists to share retrospective clinical data for research: a perspective from the European Network for the Study of Adrenal Tumors. " DOI: 10.1093/ejendo/lvaf005

ENSAT Scientific Awards for PPGL research

• Friederike Constanze Völter, Munich, Germany, with the paper: "[18F]SiTATE-PET/CT for detection of pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas: comparison of biochemical secretion, genotype and imaging metrics" DOI: 10.1007/s00259-025-07341-9
•  Carlota Arenillas Lallana, Barcelona, Spain, with the paper: "Convergent genetic adaptation in human tumors developed under systemic hypoxia and in populations living at high altitudes" DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-0943 

ENSAT Meeting Awards

Best oral communications

• ACC session: Marc Philipp Schauer, Würzburg, Germany

• APA session: May Fayad, Paris, France

• NAPACA session: Elizabeth Nowak, Munich, Germany

• PPGL session: Milton E. Salazar-Hidalgo, Madrid, Spain

Best posters

• ACC session: Andrea Abate, Brescia, Italy

• APA session: Li Xiaomin, Heidelberg, Germany

• NAPACA session: Florian Violon, Paris, France

• PPGL session: Karna Bhargavi, Munich, Germany

Scientific Awards 2024

ENSAT Scientific Awards

Bruno Allolio Scientific Awards for ACC research

• Francesca Cioppi & Giulia Cantini, Florence, Italy, with the paper: "Targeted Next Generation Sequencing molecular profiling and its clinical application in adrenocortical cancer" DOI: 10.1093/ejendo/lvae077

• Laura-Sophie Landwehr, Würzburg, Germany, with the paper: "Expression and Prognostic Relevance of PD-1, PD-L1, and CTLA-4 Immune Checkpoints in Adrenocortical Carcinoma" DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgae109

ENSAT Scientific Awards for APA research

• Anna Hirsch, Berlin, Germany, with the paper: "NTpro-BNP levels in patients with primary hyperaldosteronism and autonomous cortisol co-secretion" DOI: 10.1093/ejendo/lvae119

ENSAT Scientific Awards for NAPACA research

• Mirko Parasiliti-Caprino, Torino, Italy, with the paper: "Increased cardiometabolic risk and prevalence of ascending aorta dilation in patients with nonfunctioning adrenal incidentaloma: a retrospective propensity score-matched study" DOI: 10.1038/s41440-024-01807-3
• Barbara Altieri, Würzburg, Germany, with the paper: "Single-nucleus and spatial transcriptome reveal adrenal homeostasis in normal and tumoural adrenal glands" DOI: 10.1002/ctm2.1798
  

ENSAT Scientific Awards for PPGL research

• Joanne Marieke de Laat, Nijmegen, Netherlands, with the paper: "PRAP Study: Partial versus Radical Adrenalectomy in Hereditary Pheochromocytomas" DOI: 10.1093/ejendo/lvae108
  
•  Milton E. Salazar-Hidalgo, Madrid, Spain, with the paper: "MAML3-fusions modulate Vascular and Immune Tumour Microenvironment and Confer High Metastatic Risk in Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma" DOI:10.1016/j.beem.2024.101931

ENSAT Meeting Awards

Best oral communications

• ACC session: Marc Philipp Schauer, Würzburg, Germany

• APA session: Sheerazed Boulkroun, Paris, France

• NAPACA session: Onnicha Suntornlohanakul, Birmingham, UK

• PPGL session: Ester Arroba, Madrid, Spain

Best posters

• ACC session: Sara Rodella, Brescia, Italy

• APA session: Nicolo Faedda, Paris, France

• NAPACA session: Lorenzo Tucci/Kimberly Coscia, Bologna, Italy
  

• PPGL session: Gintare Zygiene, Dresden, Germany

Scientific Awards 2023 

ENSAT Scientific Awards

Bruno Allolio Scientific Awards for ACC research

• Otilia Kimpel, Würzburg, Germany, with the paper: "Efficacy and safety of radiation therapy in advanced adrenocortical carcinoma" DOI:10.1038/s41416-022-02082-0

• James John Wilmouth Jr & Julie Olabe, Clermont-Ferrand, France, with the paper: "Sexually dimorphic activation of innate antitumor immunity prevents adrenocortical carcinoma development" DOI:10.1126/sciadv.add0422

ENSAT Scientific Awards for APA research

• Parminder Singh Reel & Smarti Reel, Dundee, UK, with the paper: "Machine learning for classification of hypertension subtypes using multi-omics: a multi-centre, retrospective, data-driven study" DOI:10.1016/j.ebiom.2022.104276
• Xilin Wu & Emily Goodchild, London, UK, with the paper: "[11C]metomidate PET-CT versus adrenal vein sampling for diagnosing surgically curable primary aldosteronism: a prospective, within-patient trial" DOI:10.1038/s41591-022-02114-5

ENSAT Scientific Awards for NAPACA research

• Masanori Murakami, Munich, Germany, with the paper: "In situ metabolomics of cortisol-producing adenomas" DOI:10.1093/clinchem/hvac191
• Guido Zavatta, Bologna, Italy, with the paper: "Mild autonomous cortisol secretion in adrenal incidentalomas and risk of fragility fractures: a large cross-sectional study" DOI:10.1093/ejendo/lvad038
  

ENSAT Scientific Awards for PPGL research

• Bruna Calsina, Elena Pineiro & Angel Martinez-Montes, Madrid, Spain, with the paper: "Genomic and immune landscape of metastatic pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma" DOI:10.1038/s41467-023-36769-6
  
•  Christina Pamporaki, Dresden, Germany, with the paper: "Prediction of metastatic pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma: a machine learning modelling study using data from a cross-sectional cohort" DOI:10.1016/S2589-7500(23)00094-8 

ENSAT Meeting Awards

Best oral communications

• ACC session:
  

Marc Philipp Schauer, Würzburg, Germany
Lorenzo Tucci, Bologna, Italy

• APA session: 

Bakhta Fedlaoui, Paris, France

• NAPACA session: 

Kotaro Sasaki, Philadelphia, USA

• PPGL session: 

Tom Drossart, Paris, France
Carlota Arenillas, Barcelona, Spain

Best posters

• ACC session: Alexandra Triebig, Munich, Germany

• APA session: Sybille Fuld, Dresden, Germany

• NAPACA session: Anabel Berthon, Paris, France
  

• PPGL session: Chiara Parazzoli, Milan, Italy

Scientific Awards 2022

details coming later

ENS@T Scientific Awards 2021

ENSAT Scientific Awards

Bruno Allolio Award for ACC research

ENSAT Award for APA research

ENSAT Award for NAPACA research

ENSAT Award for PPGL research

ENSAT Flash Talk Awards

PPGL

APA/NAPACA

ENS@T Awards 2020

ENSAT Scientific Awards

Bruno Allolio Award for ACC research

ENSAT Award for APA research

ENSAT Award for NAPACA research

ENSAT Award for PPGL research

ENSAT Flash Talk Awards

PPGL

APA/NAPACA

ENS@T Awards 2019

ENSAT Scientific Awards

Group picture of ENS@T scientific awards winners

Bruno Allolio Award for ACC research

Anne Jouinot

For the work: DNA methylation is an independent prognostic marker of survival in adrenocortical cancer

ENSAT Award for APA research

Masanori Murakami and Yara Rhayem

For the work: In situ metabolomics of aldosterone-producing adenomas

ENSAT Award for NAPACA research

Grethe Astrom Ueland

For the work: Adrenal venous sampling for assessment of autonomous cortisol secretion

ENSAT Award for PPGL research

Bruna Calsina and Luis Jaime Castro-Vega

For the work: Integrative multi-omics analysis identifies a prognostic miRNA signature and a targetable miR-21-3p/TSC2/mTOT axis in metastatic pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma

ENSAT Poster Awards

Group picture of poster awards winners

ACC

Kate Warde for the poster: Investigating the role of the Liver X Receptor in potentiating mitotane therapy in adrenocortical carcinoma

APA

Xiao Wang and Daniel A. Heinrich for the poster: Identification of potential predictors of adrenal insufficiency after unilateral adrenalectomy for primary aldosteronism

NAPACA

Guido di Dalmazi for the poster: Prevalence and incidence of atrial fibrillation in a large population of adrenal incidentalomas

PPGL

Carlota Arenillas for the poster: Highly frequent EPAS1 somatic gain-of-function mutations and genotype-phenotype associations in Pheochromocytomas and Paragangliomas of Patients with Cyanotic Congenital Heart Disease

and some more photos from the awards dinner:

ENS@T Awards 2018

Bruno Allolio Award for ACC research

Juliane Lippert

For the work:  Targeted molecular analysis in adrenocortical carcinomas: a strategy towards improved personalized prognostication

ENSAT Award for APA research

Fabio L. Fernandes-Rosa

For the work: A gain-of-function mutationin theCLCN2 chloride channel gene causes primary aldosteronism

ENSAT Award for NAPACA research

  Ábel Decmann

For the work:  MicroRNAExpression Profilingin Adrenal Myelolipoma

ENSAT Award for PPGL research

Bruna Calsina and Maria Currás-Freixes

Susan Richter and Barbara Klink

For the work: Metabolome-guided genomics to identify pathogenic variants in isocitrate dehydrogenase, fumarate hydratase, and succinate dehydrogenasegenes in pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma

ENSAT Poster Awards

Group picture of (almost) all poster awards winners

ACC

Laura Landwehr for the poster: Steroid hormones and cancer immunity – insight into adrenocortical carcinoma

APA

Kelly de Sousa for the poster: Characterization of the genetic, cellular and molecular heterogeneity in aldosterone producing adenoma

NAPACA

Valeria Bisogni for the poster: Onset of autoimmune diseases in patients with Cushing’s Syndrome after successfully treatment

PPGL

Judith Goncalves for the poster: Sdhd knockout cells, a new model to explain sdhb-related malignancy in paraganglioma

Paradifference Foundation Awards 2017

ENSAT and Paradifference Foundation Awards for malignant PPGL research

Lucie Evenepoel

Serena Martinelli

For the work: The microenvironment induces collective migration in SDHB silenced mouse pheochromocytoma spheroids

ENS@T Awards 2017