ISBT Awards and Prizes
This page displays information on all ISBT awards, prizes and fellowships.
Please click on the title below to read more about procedures, regulations and previous winners.
Jean Julliard Prize
Information about the Jean Julliard Prize
The Jean Julliard Prize recognises clinicians or scientists who are under 40 years of age and have a noteworthy portfolio of recent published work contributing to advances in transfusion medicine. Individual members of ISBT may self-nominate for the Jean Julliard Prize. The Prize is awarded every two years at the International Congress.
The prize of € 5,000 is open to members and nonmembers of the Society under the age of 40. The Prize is awarded during the next International congress of the ISBT. The successful candidates are required to give a presentation on their submission during the Congress. Travel, registration, and accommodation costs for the congress will be covered by ISBT. Candidates should submit their application through the below online application form.
Regulations for the Jean Julliard Prize
Winners of the Jean Julliard Prize
Recipient of the Jean Julliard Prize 2022
2022

Alexander Vlaar
ISBT Award for Developing Countries
Information about the ISBT Award for Developing Countries
The ISBT Award for Developing Countries is awarded to a Blood Service/Centre or a Department of Transfusion medicine within a medical institution from a Developing Country that has made a significant contribution in strengthening Blood Transfusion Practice within the Country. Qualifying developing countries will be those that are considered low or lower middle income according to the World Bank index.
The Award is in the form of full sponsorship for two delegates from the winning institution to attend an International Congress of the ISBT (airfares, registration, accommodation and per diem). The award also includes sponsorship of an education symposium in the country of the winning applicant (value €10,000). The Award winner will be presented with a certificate at the Opening Ceremony of the International Congress and will be expected to give a presentation in one of the scientific sessions.
The Developing Countries Award 2024 will be presented at the 38th International Congress of the ISBT in Barcelona June 23-27, 2024.
Applications for the 2024 award will open in September 2023, and close on December 15, 2023.
Recipients of the Award
2022
The winner of the Developing Country Award is the Kasturba Hospital Blood Centre New Delhi, India.
Previous winners
ISBT Award
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The ISBT Award will be granted to a person or an organisation that contributes or has contributed in an outstanding way to the education of blood transfusion or transfusion medicine science. The selection of the Award winner(s) and the granting of this Award is a prerogative of the Executive Committee of ISBT.
ISBT Presidential Award
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The Foundation Transfusion Medicine grants this Award to a senior person who has made eminent contributions to transfusion medicine or a related field through original basic or applied research, the practice of transfusion therapy or through significant educational and/or service contribution to the field.
A short curriculum vitae of the proposed candidate and a description of his/her contribution in transfusion medicine, accompanied with three signatures of ISBT members who support the nomination, should be sent to the Secretary- General of the Foundation, Henk Reesink.
The Nomination Committee (consisting of the ISBT President, the ISBT President-Elect, the ISBT Scientific Officer, the Chairman and a member of Board of the Foundation Transfusion Medicine) will decide which candidate will be nominated.
The ISBT Presidential Award is presented every two years at the International Congress of the ISBT.
Harold Gunson Fellowship
The Harold Gunson Fellowship gives doctors and scientists an opportunity to attend ISBT congresses. A limited number of grants will be made available for ISBT Regional and International congresses. To apply for the fellowship you should:
- Be 40 years of age or under at the date of the first day of the congress.
- Be the first, submitting and presenting author of an abstract which has been accepted for the scientific programme.
- Not have received a Harold Gunson fellowship twice before. Applicants from very high or high HDI countries can only receive the Harold Gunson Fellowship once.
Application to the Harold Gunson Fellowship can be submitted on the current congress pages.
Vox Sanguinis Best Paper Prize
The Vox Sanguinis Best Paper Prize is a scientific award for the best original paper that has been published in ISBT’s journal Vox Sanguinis in the previous calendar year. The editors of Vox Sanguinis will compile a list of papers that qualify for this Prize. The value of the prize is €5000 and is granted by the Standing Committee on Vox Sanguinis and the Editorial Board.