Education＆ScienceAwards

APSR-JRS Young Investigator Award

This award will be available to APSR Young Investigators from Japanese Respiratory Society (JRS) at each APSR Congress.

The JRS awards committee will select the best three abstracts from all JRS members who have applied, and who have been accepted for presenting their work.

The Award

  • Congress registration
  • A commemorative certificate
  • Travel grant based on the distance from the awardee’s usual place of residence to the host country
  • Up to four nights’ accommodation at an APSR-designated hotel
  • Invitation to the Gala Dinner (or similar social event) for the award ceremony
  • The awardee may also be introduced on the APSR website, Bulletin and social media.

The Awardee

  • May apply for this Award when they submit their abstract to the Congress
  • Must have been an JRS member for 5 years or longer
  • Must be aged ≤40 at the start of the Congress
  • Must comply with other conditions according to the JRS rules
  • Must be the First Author and able to present the abstract at the Congress
  • Cannot win multiple awards at the same APSR Congress (except the Respirology Case Reports Poster Award), nor have other travel support for the same APSR Congress.
  • Must register for the Congress before their individual “cut-off date”.
    The cut-off date will be provided in the acceptance letter sent by the Local Congress Secretariat. This date will be earlier than the usual registration deadline, to enable the programme schedule to be compiled and awards to be considered.
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