ESBRA Nordmann Award 2010

The European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA) is pleased to introduce the 2010 ESBRA-Nordmann Award to a young scientist for significant scientific contribution to biomedical research on alcoholism. The applicant should be a European scientist, preferably under the age of 35, recommended by a letter from an ESBRA member.

In 2010, the award will consist of 3.000 Euro, to be delivered during a symposium organized under the auspices of ESBRA during the ESBRA Award Meeting in Heidelberg 2010 (17th-18th of September)

For the ESBRA-NORDMANN AWARD each submission shall include:

• The curriculum vitae of the applicant, including a list of his/her published articles.
• Copies of his/her most significant publications.
• An original text of 5 pages maximum representing either unpublished data or a synthesis of already published results.

The deadline for the receipt of submission is the 30 th of June 2010.

All applications should be sent to the ESBRA president Helmut Seitz: helmut_karl.seitz(at)urz.uni-heidelberg.de

Manfred Lautenschläger – European Alcohol Research Award

The Manfred Lautenschläger Award of 25.000 euros donated by Mr. Manfred Lautenschläger, Heidelberg, Germany, will be granted by ESBRA every second year at the Congress of ESBRA. The Award will be granted to a well-established alcohol researcher who has contributed strongly to the understanding of alcohol-related and alcohol-associated diseases or the development of treatment strategies in alcohol-associated diseases. The recipient of the Award must have devoted most of his academic and research career to alcohol research.

The first two awardees of the European Alcohol Research Awards were Professor Mikko Salaspuro (Finland) and Prof. Otto Lesch (Austria).

The third Award will be granted at the 13th ESBRA Congress in 2011 in Vienna.