WFSBP 2019 Final Program

WFSBP 2019 10 WFSBP Awards The following WFSBP Awards will be delivered and presented during the 14 th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry 2019 in Vancouver. WFSBP LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD IN BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY The WFSBP Lifetime Achievement Award in Biological Psychiatry is intended for senior research scientists (MD, PhD or equivalent) whose lifework has significantly influ- enced today‘s field of biological psychiatry. This award is open to members and non-members of the WFSBP. It con- sists of a monetary award of EUR 1,000. Awardees 2019: Robert Post, USA / Dan Stein, South Africa WFSBP AWARD FOR SCIENTIFIC EXCELLENCE OF THE WFSBP HOST The WFSBP Award for Scientific Excellence of the WFSBP Host is dedicated to outstanding researchers in the field of Biological Psychiatry originating from the host country of the World Congress of Biological Psychiatry. This award consists of a monetary award of EUR 1,000. Awardees 2019: Glenda MacQueen, Canada / Stanley Kutcher, Canada WFSBP RESEARCH PRIZE The WFSBP Research Prize is intended for WFSBP mem- bers (MD, PhD or equivalent) whose current scientific work has had an important impact in the field of clinical and / or basic research in the area of biological psychiatry. This prize consists of a monetary award of EUR 1,000. Awardee 2019: Matcheri Keshavan, USA YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARDS WFSBP offers Educational Grants for young investigators to attend the WFSBP biennial congress and the special educational sessions. These sessions are especially de- signed for young researchers (under 40 year-old) which have been pre-selected via an application process. The grants include travel grants of EUR 400 plus free registra- tion to the WFSBP Congress. Awardees 2019: Rashmin Achalia, India Frances Adiukwu, Nigeria Sofi Atshemyan, Armenia Srinivas Balachander, India Maximus Berger, Australia Milica Borovcanin, Serbia Giovana Bristot, Brazil Jane Pei Chen Chang, Taiwan Dinakaran Damodharan, India Huixi Dong, China Sundar Gnanavel, India Philipp Homann, USA Sulochana Joshi, Nepal Shubrata Kalmane, India Yanhui Liao, China Ahmed Mhalla, Tunisia Archana Mishra, India Felipe Ornell, Brazil Jairo Vinícius Pinto, Brazil Preethi Reddy, India Gayatri Saraf, India Sowmya Selvaraj, India Mohammadreza Shalbafan, Iran Darpan Kaur Mohinder Singh, India Vanteemar S. Sreeraj, India Jonathan Stange, USA Manjula Subbanna, India Wen-Ting Tong, Malaysia