Awards

ISPNE presents several awards to distinguished researchers and young investigators at its Annual Conference. Among these awards are the prestigious Bruce McEwen Lifetime Achievement Award  (renamed in 2020) and the Dirk Hellhammer Award (renamed from Curt Richter Award in 2021).

Members are welcome to nominate colleagues for the Bruce McEwen Lifetime Achievement Award by navigating to the nomination portal.

Members are welcome to apply for the Dirk Hellhammer Award by navigating to the application portal.

C. Sue Carter, PhD, Kinsey Institute

Dirk Hellhammer Awards

Joanna Spencer-Segal, MD, PhD, University of Michigan

Grant Shields, PhD, University of Arkansas

Early Career Scholar Top-Rated Abstract Awards

ISPNE  acknowledges the effort and scholarship of rising stars among the Members of the ISPNE community through Early Career Scholar Awards of $500 USD each to Early Career Scholars attending the annual conference. For the 2024 virtual conference, generous sponsorship has allowed ISPNE to reduce fees for all Early Career Scholar ISPNE members in lieu of travel honorariums.

The awards are determined based on the quality and originality of the abstract submitted for poster, oral or symposium presentation. Two additional Awards have been offered since 2021, sponsored by Elsevier, that are dedicated to researchers from low- and middle-income countries. 

All Early Career Scholars who submit an abstract for a presentation to the annual conference are eligible. No additional application is required.

The decision is made by the organizing committee of each conference and communicated on the first day of the conference.

For more information, contact [email protected]

2024 Award Recipients

Congratulations to the 2024 recipients of the Early Career Scholar Awards for the highest rated abstracts submitted by early career scholar ISPNE members.

Kristin Davis: Age, Stress, and Markers of Inflammation among African American Adults: Findings from the Heart of Detroit Study

Helena Nti: Effect of lipid-based nutrient supplementation on children's hair cortisol in late childhood

Qiuhan Huang: Associations Between Prenatal Distress, Mitochondrial Health, and Gestational Age: Findings from birth cohorts in US and Turkey

Andrea Zagaria: Childhood adversity and adult depressive symptoms: body mass index and interleukin-6 as sequential mediators in a structural equation modelling meta-analysis