ASCEPT and PAGANZ awards and prizes
PAGANZ student member prizes
Nick Holford Prize
Objective
The purpose of the PAGANZ Student Presentation Nick Holford Prize is to foster and award students who excel in clinical pharmacology research that applies pharmacometric methods to improve human health.
Eligibility
The award is open to PAGANZ members who are students undertaking a research project within the area of clinical pharmacology and pharmacometrics and who present their work in an oral presentation at the annual PAGANZ meeting.
Award
The award includes prize money of the value of AUD200 as well as an oral presentation at the next ASCEPT ASM.
The abstract of the winning presentation will be highlighted on the PAGANZ webpage.
The award will be determined by judging submitted abstracts and presentations by a panel of judges.
PAGANZ and the judging panel reserve the right to not award this prize if applications are not of sufficient merit.
PAGANZ International Society of Pharmacometrics (ISoP)
Objective
The purpose of the PAGANZ International Society of Pharmacometrics Student Prize for Pharmacometrics is to foster and award students who excel in their research using pharmacometric methods. This prize also serves to foster the international engagement of early career pharmacometricians in Australia and New Zealand with the International Society of Pharmacometrics.
Eligibility
The award is open to PAGANZ members who are students undertaking a research project within the area of pharmacometrics, and who present their work in an oral presentation at the annual PAGANZ meeting.
Award
The award includes prize money of the value of AUD200 as well as a Student ISoP Membership for one year.
The abstract of the winning presentation will be highlighted on the PAGANZ webpage.
The award will be determined by judging submitted abstracts and presentations by a panel of judges.
PAGANZ and the judging panel reserve the right to not award this prize if applications are not of sufficient merit.
ASCEPT Prizes
In order to be eligible for any award, nominees must be financial members of ASCEPT prior to the judging of the specific award. Abstracts will be considered for the following prize categories:
- Certara New Investigator Awards
- ASCEPT Gillian Shenfield Early Educator Award
- ASCEPT Early Achievement Award for Women
- ASCEPT Garth McQueen Prize (oral prize)
- ASCEPT Clinical Pharmacology Trainee Prize (oral prize)
- ASCEPT Neville Percy Prize (student poster prize)
- ASCEPT Robert Whelan Prize (student poster prize)
- ASCEPT Integrative Pharmacology/Toxicology Prize (student poster prize)
- ASCEPT Special Interest Group Prizes (student poster prize)
Certara New Investigator Awards
These prestigious awards are presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of ASCEPT during a symposium designed to showcase New Investigators in clinical and experimental pharmacology and toxicology. Nominations of suitable New Investigators must be made by a member of ASCEPT, who should ensure that the nominee is also a member of the Society.
The application must contain a letter of support and up-to-date Curriculum Vitae of the nominee, and should be forwarded to ASCEPT Executive Officer at ascept@ascept.org by Tuesday 28 May 2019. The selected nominees will be invited to present their research at the Annual Scientific Meeting, where they will also be presented with a certificate recognising their Award. They will also be eligible for complimentary registration for the ASM, a return economy airfare (best possible price), one night’s accommodation to attend the meeting, and may be invited to submit a review on their topic for publication in Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology.
View full guidelines for Certara New Investigator Awards
ASCEPT Gillian Shenfield Early Educator Award
The ASCEPT Gillian Shenfield Early Educator Award was established in 2012 and is awarded annually to a full member of ASCEPT to recognise and reward initiatives in pharmacology education that lead to enhanced student outcomes. Applicants must have been members of ASCEPT for at least 2 years and at the level of Lecturer Level B (or equivalent) or below. Applicants can be involved in any aspect of teaching in pharmacology or toxicology, either basic or clinical, and should demonstrate that they have changed their teaching practices to improve learning outcomes amongst their students.
To apply for this prize applicants must:
- select I wish to be considered for ASCEPT Gillian Shenfield Early Educator Award and select oral presentation as the presentation preference during the online abstract submission process
- in addition to submitting a standard abstract, upload an Application Package (in PDF format) as part of the abstract submission process.
Abstract submission deadline – 9 September 2019
View ASCEPT Early Educator Award Guidelines
All applications will be judged by a panel nominated by the ASCEPT Education Forum. The successful applicant will be invited to present at the Education Symposia/Workshop at the Annual Scientific Meeting. Other applicants will be allocated a poster or oral presentation as decided by the Scientific Advisory Committee.
ASCEPT Early Achievement Award for Women
This award, to be presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of ASCEPT, is to be made to a woman within five years of the award of her PhD, or longer if combined with periods of significant career interruption, for significant achievement in research and scholarship in pharmacology or toxicology.
The award is to recognise the early achievements of women pharmacologists and toxicologists, and to assist ASCEPT to achieve gender equality in ASCEPT’s senior awards and office bearers.
To apply for this prize applicants must:
- select I wish to be considered for ASCEPT Early Achievement Award for Women 2019 and select oral presentation as the presentation preference during the online abstract submission process
- in addition to a standard abstract, upload an Application Package (in PDF format) as part of the abstract submission process.
View ASCEPT Early Achievement Award for Women
ASCEPT Student Member Prizes
Several student prizes are on offer each year at the Annual Scientific Meeting of ASCEPT. Prizes are open to all Honours and Higher Degree (i.e. PhD and Masters) students and clinicians in an accredited training program, or clinicians who have worked for less than seven years full-time since completing their undergraduate degree. To be eligible for ASCEPT prizes, students must be financial members of ASCEPT by the time of judging at the ASM.
ASCEPT Garth McQueen Prize (Oral Communication Prize)
The ASCEPT Garth McQueen Prize was established in memory of Professor Garth McQueen, a member of the original steering committee that established ASCEPT. It is awarded annually for the best oral communication by a Higher Degree student member of ASCEPT. A Higher Degree student includes anyone undertaking a Masters Degree or PhD in a relevant biomedical discipline. Clinicians in an accredited training program, or who have worked for less than seven years full-time since completing their undergraduate degree, are also eligible.
To apply for this prize students must:
- select I wish to be considered for ASCEPT Garth McQueen Prize and select oral presentation as the presentation preference during the online abstract submission process
- in addition to a standard abstract, submit an 800 word project description (in PDF format) as part of the abstract submission process.
View 800 word project description guidelines
Students will be shortlisted on the basis of the scientific quality, innovation and significance of their study by an ASCEPT judging panel. Students who are shortlisted for the ASCEPT Garth McQueen Prize may still present their abstract in poster format so that they remain in contention for the poster prizes. Students who are not shortlisted, will automatically be included in the poster program and thus eligible for the poster prizes.
ASCEPT Clinical Pharmacology Trainee Prize (Oral Communication Prize)
The ASCEPT Clinical Pharmacology Trainee prize is awarded for: The best research presentation by a Clinical Pharmacology Trainee at the Annual Scientific Meeting of ASCEPT. Eligible trainees will be current ASCEPT members and currently enrolled as trainees in Clinical Pharmacology under the Specialty Training Committee for Clinical Pharmacology. This prize recognises the importance of research to the discipline of Clinical Pharmacology and the importance of experience in presenting at scientific meetings to training in the discipline. All trainees are encouraged to submit abstracts.
To apply for this prize clinical pharmacology trainees must:
- select ASCEPT Clinical Pharmacology Trainee as the abstract theme and indicate trainee status
The six highest ranked abstracts (the number may vary, dependent on the conference program) will be invited to make oral presentations which will be judged at the dedicated Clinical Pharmacology Trainee session on the basis of scientific merit, relevance to the discipline and quality of presentation. The remaining abstracts will be considered for poster presentation or oral presentations at other sessions at the discretion of the Scientific Advisory Committee.
ASCEPT Poster Prizes
All students who submit their abstract prior to the submission closing date and become student financial members of ASCEPT by the time of prize judging at the ASM will automatically be considered for the ASCEPT Neville Percy or ASCEPT Robert Whelan Prizes and any relevant Special Interest Group prizes. View details about poster guidelines.
ASCEPT Neville Percy Prize
The ASCEPT Neville Percy Prize was established in memory of Dr Neville Percy, one of the founding members of the Society and is awarded annually to a Higher Degree student for the best poster communication at the Annual Scientific Meeting.
ASCEPT Robert Whelan Prize
The ASCEPT Robert Whelan Prize was established in memory of Professor Robert Whelan, a co-founder of the Society and is awarded annually to a BSc Honours, BMedSc Honours, or equivalent fourth year (e.g. Grad Dip Sci) degree student for the best poster communication at the Annual Scientific Meeting.
ASCEPT Integrative Pharmacology/Toxicology Prize
The ASCEPT Integrative Pharmacology/Toxicology Prize was established in 2010 and is awarded at the Annual Scientific Meeting to an Honours OR Higher Degree student for the best poster communication in this category. Eligibility criteria and guidelines can be viewed here. A password is required for access, please contact the ASCEPT Executive Officer at ascept@ascept.org for password.
To apply for this prize students must:
- select I wish to be considered for ASCEPT Integrative Pharmacology/Toxicology Prize during the online abstract submission process
- in addition to a standard abstract, submit a 500 word statement as per the prize guidelines (in PDF format) as part of the abstract submission process.
Special Interest Group Prizes
Students whose research falls under an area of interest of one of ASCEPT’s Special Interest Groups (SIGs) will automatically be considered for the relevant SIG Prize. Note SIGs covering clinical research areas (i.e. the Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology SIGs) may also consider registrants in an accredited training program and non-students who have worked for less than seven years full-time since completing their first undergraduate degree, for their prizes.
The following Special Interest Groups award a prize annually to the student who gives the best overall presentation in their specific research field.
• Cardiovascular Prize
• Clinical Prize for Trainees
• Clinical Prize
• Drug Disposition and Response Prize
• Drug Discovery Prize
• Education Prize
• Gastro Urogenital Prize
• Pharmacogenomics Prize
• Toxicology Prize
• Pharmacoepidemiology
• Neuro- and Behavioural Pharmacology Prize
• NZ section (Fred Fastier and Evan Begg prizes)