Prizes & Grants
Up to 25 travel grants of max. CHF 500.- travel expenses will be awarded based on the quality of the submitted abstract. After completing your congress registration, please register for the abstract submission <here>. Once logged in to the abstract submission tool, you will be able to submit your travel grant documents, which include a one-page CV and a publication list of peer-reviewed articles only, until 1 December 2025. Membership of SSAI and SYIS is mandatory in order to apply for SSAI grants.
Winners of the cash awards will be notified by the organizers around mid-January 2026. The cash will be handed out on site at the congress.
Travel Grants are sponsored by:
«Best Workshop Presentation Awards» will be distributed to the best presenter of each workshop. The winners of the cash awards will be selected by the chairs immediately after each workshop and honoured at the awards ceremony the following day.
Workshop prizes will be sponsored by:
At the daily award ceremonies, the winners of each poster session will be selected by the poster chairs and the organizing committee for the best poster presentation prize, which consists of a one-year free subscription to a top journal.
Poster prizes will be sponsored by:
Throughout the congress, there will be 12 workshop sessions, each covering different topics and titles. The best oral presentation, selected by the session chairs from all workshops, will be recognized with a cash prize.
The award, including the sponsor’s name, will be announced in a bulk email, and the prize will be distributed via bank transfer.
The Best Oral Presentation prize will be sponsored by:
Congratulations to all TRAVEL GRANT WINNERS
Bulbuloglu Cemre Naz, PhD Student, Koc University Graduate School Of Health Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey
Hamilton Jee Mia, MSc, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Norton Natasha, PhD, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Pat Yagiz, MD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Sevim Mustafa, MD, Marmara University School of Medicine, Physiology Department
Skeen Colin, M.S., Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
Tay Hock, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
Verreycken Janne, Master of Biomedical Sciences, Hasselt University, University MS Center, Diepenbeek Campus, Diepenbeek, Belgium
Walusimbi Bridgious, MSc, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Zhang Yanting, Ph.D., Harvard University, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States
Kouklas Athanasios, M.Sc, CHUV/UNIL, Epalinges, Switzerland
Hilaire Morgane, PhD, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Papadopoulou Chrysa, Phd Candidate in Bioinformatics, Institute of Immunobiology, HOCH Health Ostschweiz, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, Switzerland
Seven Cemre, MSc, University of Basel, Switzerland
Wawrzyniak Marcin, PhD, Institute for Translational Research, EOC, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Czołpiński Krystian, Student, Centre of Regenerative Medicine, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
Funda David, M.D., Ph.D., Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v.v.i., Prague, Czech Republic
Gao Zhongshan, PhD, Institute of Immunology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Grant Rhiannon, PhD, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Maldonado Angel, PhD Student, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Meng Fanzhe, PhD student, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Niotis George, PHD canditate, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Sanchez Martinez Elisa, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria Hospital Universitario de La Princesa (IIS-Princesa), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain
Schiller Hannah Ruth, M.Sc., Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Langen, Germany
Sontyana Brahmaji, Ph. D., Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad, Telangana, India