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), the Dirk Hellhammer Award (renamed from Curt Richter Award in 2021) and the Service Award.

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.

In recognition of exceptional service, the Society may occasionally confer a Service Award on an individual whose contributions exceed normal expectations. Nominations for this award are made from within the Society.

 

2025 Award Recipients

Bruce McEwen Lifetime Achievement Award
 
Shaozheng Qin, Ph.D.

 

Dirk Hellhammer Award
 Robert Dantzer, Ph.D.

Service Award

Dr. Rose-Marie Bluthé 

 

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] 

2025 Award Recipients

Congratulations to the 2025 recipients of the Early Career Scholar Awards for the highest rated abstracts submitted by early career scholar ISPNE members. 
Victoria Mueller: Cortisol Administration Does not Effect the Psychological Expereince of Stress in Depression
Ekaterina Schneider: The Impact of Childhood and Adult Touch on Social Relationships, Mental Health, and Stress Regulation
Harrison Britton Dickens: Associations Between Recent Stress and Hair Cortisol Concentration: Moderating Role of Individual and Neighborhood-Level Lifetime Stressor Exposure 
Lauren Elizabeth Gyllenhammer: Mitochondrial bioenergetic capacity in infant mesenchymal stem cells: Fetal determinants and predictors of child adiposity in the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) cohort study
Marina Giglberger: Stress-related brain activity in limbic and cortical regions predicts long-term stress in real life
Bernat Soley: Aggressive behavior and acute stress response in childhood
.2024 Award Recipients
Bruce McEwen Lifetime Achievement Award

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

 

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