SSCC Encouragement Award
The SSCC annually presents the Encouragement Award to support emerging talent in Clinical Chemistry.
If you believe that your scientific work, or that of a colleague, merits this award and you are under 40 years of age, we invite you to submit your work conducted primarily in Switzerland. The work should be accepted or published by a peer-reviewed journal during the past year.
Application Requirements:
- Publication submitted for the award
- Completed application form
- Brief CV
- List of publications
- Any necessary approvals from co-authors
Submission Deadline: End of May
The Encouragement Award will be presented during the SSCC Annual Assembly. The recipient will be invited to give a brief presentation of their work during the event.
SSCC Encouragement Award Recipients
| Year | Recipient | Institution | Publication title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Henning Nilius | Inselspital Bern | Proteomic profiling for biomarker discovery in heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (Blood Adv. 2024 Jun 11;8(11):2825-2834); The dynamic range of immunoassays for heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (Thromb Haemost. 2025 Feb;23(2):684-691) |
| 2024 | not attributed | ||
| 2023 | Alessio Cremonesi | Kinderspital Zürich | Improved diagnostics of purine and pyrimidine metabolism disorders using LC-MS/MS and its clinical application (Clin Chem Lab Med. 2023 Apr 4) |
| 2022 | Lara Duran-Trio | CHUV Lausanne | Creatine transporter-deficient rat model shows motor dysfunction, cerebellar alterations, and muscle creatine defiency without muscle atrophy (J Inherit Metab Dis. 2022 Mar;45(2)) and A new rat model of creatine transporter deficiency reveals behavioral disorder and altered brain metabolism (Sci. Rep.2021 Jan 15; 11:1636) |
| 2021 | Déborah Mathis | Inselspital Bern ; work done while at Kinderspital Zürich | LC-MS/MS method for the differential diagnosis of treatable early onset inherited metabolic epilepsies (J Inherit Metab Dis. 2020;1–10) |
| 2020 | not attributed | ||
| 2019 | Andrea Jäger | IKC - UniSpital ZH | Circulating miRNAs-192 and -194 are associated with the presence and incidence of diabetes mellitus (Scientific Reports 2018, 8:14274) |
| 2018 | Fanny Zufferey | ICH HVS | Steroid profiles in both blood serum and seminal plasma are not correlated and do not reflect sperm quality : Study on the male reproductive health of fifty young Swiss men (Clin Biochem 2018, 62:39) |
| 2017 | not attributed | ||
| 2016 | Joanna Gawinecka | IKC - UniSpital ZH | FABP4 is a prognostic biomarker in patients with acute coronary syndrome but not in asymptomatic individuals (Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2015, 35:1872) |
| 2015 | Didia Coelho Graça | FacMed - UniGE | Identification of hemoglobin variants by top-down mass spectrometry using selected diagnostic product ions (Anal Bioanal Chem, 2015, 407:2837) |
| 2014 | Ursula Amstutz | Uni IKC - Inselspital | HLA-A*31.01 and HLA-B*15.02 as genetic markers for carbamazepine hypersensitivity in children (Clin Pharmacol Ther 2013, 94:142) |
| 2013 | Alexander B. Leichtle | Uni IKC - Inselspital | Serum amino acid profiles and their alterations in colorectal cancer (Metabolomics 2012, 8:643) |
| 2012 | not attributed | ||
| 2011 | Daniel M. Müller | IKC - UniSpital ZH | Development of a fully automated toxicological LC-MS(n) screening system in urine using online extraction with turbulent flow chromatography (Anal Bioanal Chem 2011, 400:89) |