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.
Judith Chapman Award
Benefits and conditions
The value of the award is up to €7,500 in the form of a scholarship to undertake a leadership / management course. In addition, an annual membership of ISBT if not already a member and complimentary attendance at an ISBT congress including travel and accommodation will be funded. The award will be made biennially, associated with the ISBT International congress, where it will be presented at the opening ceremony.
The grant to undertake the course will be paid directly to the providing institution on registration for the course.
The winner will provide an article for Transfusion Today outlining their experience on the course and how it has benefitted their practice.
Eligibility
Transfusion professionals in a leadership role at an early stage of their career (5-10 years’ experience), are eligible for nomination by an ISBT member. Nominees need not be a current ISBT member.
Call for nominations
Recipient of Judith Chapman 2024
2024

Beukou Fonkou Hygin Steve
Passionate about translating transfusion medicine-related research into evidenced-based practice. Moreover as transfusion medicine specialist, inquisitive about developing context-based protocols in clinical transfusion and global blood safety programmes for the community. This drive led Steve to join the Quality Management and Global Blood Safety working parties of the ISBT. Moreover, Steve was selected as a Harold Gunson Fellow at the ISBT congress of 2021 and was an “ I TRY IT” 2023 mentee.
Post his MD degree as valedictorian, he obtained a scholarship to specialize in transfusion medicine at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. Currently, he serves a transfusion medicine specialist and head of blood transfusion services for the Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services (CBCHS) with over 5000 staff. He oversees the improvement of its quality management system via bridging the gap between demand and supply of blood, ensuring GMP of blood components, appropriate use of clinical blood, hemovigilance, training and education of the healthcare staff involved in transfusion etc while working towards international accreditation such as that of the African Society for Blood Transfusion.
His passion in PDMPs further led him to join the Global Blood Supply WP of the ISBT where he takes part in activities of the Safe Plasma Proteins subgroup. Furthermore, he was one of the few Harold Gunson Fellows in 2021, presented a couple of scientific research at the ISBT congresses and is an I TRY IT Mentee 2023. In addition, merging digital technology and transfusion medicine led to the birth of the social venture, Blood Track (www.bloodtrack.cm), which he coordinates.
His aspiration to contribute in the transfusion medicine world at a bigger scale, spurred him to enroll in the Management in Transfusion Medicine Program (MBA in transfusion medicine) offered by the University of Groningen in partnership with Sanquin.
Jean Julliard Prize
Benefits and conditions
The value of the Prize is €5,000. The Prize winner will be presented at the next International Congress of the ISBT, with a certificate stating their name and the title of the scientific contribution. The winner(s) will be required to give a 25-30-minute lecture based upon their submission, in a Jean Julliard session during the ISBT congress at which the prize is awarded. Congress expenses will be covered, in line with current invited speaker conditions for registration, travel and accommodation. No Prize will be awarded if the Prize winner is not present at the Congress, unless proof acceptable to the Awards and Prizes Committee has been offered, that their absence is justified.
Eligibility
The Prize is open to applications from scientists who are, at the time of submission of their manuscripts, no more than 40 years of age, and to those over 40 but at an early career stage, i.e. within five years of post-graduate qualification. The applicant need not be an ISBT member. Members of the Executive Committee, as well as members of the Awards and Prizes Committee and their co-workers are not eligible to apply for the award.
Jean Julliard Prize Application Form
ISBT Award for Developing Countries
Benefits and conditions
Certificate presented at the opening ceremony of the next international congress of the ISBT. Full sponsorship for two delegates from the winning organisation to attend the congress at which the award is presented (airfares, registration, accommodation and per diem (up to Euro 6,000). Opportunity for a short presentation at the Global Blood Safety Working Party Meeting at the ISBT congress at which the award is presented. Sponsorship of an education symposium in the country of the winning applicant (value up to Euro 10,000)
Eligibility
Applications are open to organisations providing blood transfusion services, departments of transfusion medicine within medical institutions and blood centres based in low or lower-middle-income countries (LMIC). Qualifying countries will be those designated as LMIC by the World Bank. ISBT Board members are not eligible to be the designated representative of an organisation making an application.
Call for Applications
ISBT will announce “request for applications” on its website and via other correspondence.
ISBT Award
Benefits and conditions
The ISBT Award is in the form of a certificate of achievement. The recipients will receive their certificate during the opening ceremony of an ISBT congress for which the registration fee will be waived. There is no additional financial award.
Eligibility
To have made a significant contribution to transfusion medicine and science, and a major contribution to the goals of the ISBT.
ISBT Presidential Award
Information
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.
Benefits and conditions
All successful applicants will receive travel, accommodation and complementary registration to the congress, and a one-year membership of ISBT, if not already a member. ISBT will arrange an awards lunch at the congress for all travel fellowship awardees, where certificates will be presented by the ISBT President.
Successful applicants will be expected to write a brief report on the learning points taken back to their laboratory/clinic according to a template provided. They may also be requested to submit a short report to Transfusion Today (ISBT’s quarterly on-line magazine), and/or a video clip for ISBT social media.
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.