ENETS Grants & Awards
ENETS offers numerous funding opportunities in its grant and award programme to its members and the wider NET community.
These opportunities fall into four categories:
- Scientific grants
- Educational grants
- Travel grants
- Håkan Ahlman Award
(This award acknowledges outstanding publications of NEN- researchers in their early career. The prize is awarded in the memorial of Håkan Ahlman, ENETS founding member, inspiring researcher, and role model for the ENETS community.)
Calls for proposals may vary from year to year.
Below you will find information pertaining to ENETS grants, ongoing grant projects and our grant winners throughout the years.
Educational Grants
Scientfic Grants
Grant and Award Recipients in 2024
21st Annual ENETS Conference 2024
At the 21st Annual ENETS Conference 2024, the following grants and awards were awarded:
Best oral abstract presentation in the category basic science
- First place: Iacovos MICHAEL (CAN)
- Second place: Michele SIMBOLO (ITA)
- Third place: Netta MÄKINEN (USA)
Best oral abstract presentation in the category clinical science
- First place: Louis DE MESTIER (FRA)
- Second place: Halfdan SORBYE (NOR)
- Third place: Hussein ALMEAMAR (IRL)
Best oral poster presentation in basic science
- Yotam DRIER (ISR)
Best oral poster presentation in clinical science
- Louis DE MESTIER (FRA)
Winners of the Håkan Ahlman Award 2024
Talya DAYTON (ESP)
For her outstanding article entitled
“Druggable growth dependencies and tumor evolution analysis in patient-derived organoids of neuroendocrine neoplasms from multiple body sites”.
Cédric NESTI (SUI)
For his outstanding article entitled
"Hemicolectomy versus appendectomy for patients with appendiceal neuroendocrine tumours 1-2 cm in size: a retrospective, Europe-wide, pooled cohort study".
Travel Grant Winners
Travel grants to the 21st Annual ENETS Conference have been awarded to:
- Anna Battistella (ITA)
- Elio Benevento (ITA)
- Felix Johannes Bolduan (GER)
- Maria Danieli (ITA)
- Marie Line El Asmar (GBR)
- Frederik Erdmann (NED)
- Daphne Leunissen (NED)
- Hannes Leupe (BEL)
- Jerena Manoharan (GER)
- Laura Mariën (BEL)
- María Trinidad Moreno Montilla (ESP)
- Mohamed Mortagy (GBR)
- Sergio Pedraza-Arévalo (ESP)
- Huijing Tan (CHN)
- Elena Trevisani (ITA)
Grant and Award Recipients in 2023
NextGEN ENETS
The second NextGEN ENETS Scientific workshop took place on 28 – 30 September 2023 in Knivsta, Sweden. ENETS awarded 13 young NET researchers the chance to attend this workshop:
- Ioanna ANGELIOUDAKIi, Greece
- Maria Francesca BIRTOLO, France
- Carlos CARRETERO, Spain
- Chiara Alessandra CELLA, Italy
- Laura GERARD, France
- Enes KACMAZ, The Netherlands
- Ieva LASE, Sweden
- Hannes LEUPE, Belgium
- Maria Grazia MARATTA, Italy
- Magdalena MILEVA, Belgium
- Sergio PEDRAZA-ARÈVALO, Spain
- Eleonora PELLE, United States
- Franz SESTI, Italy
20th Annual ENETS Conference 2023
The following grants and awards have been awarded within the framework of the 20th Annual ENETS Conference 2023:
Best oral abstracts in the category for basic science:
- First place: Alberto LENS (ESP)
- Second place: Ilaria MARINONI (SUI)
- Second place: María TRINIDAD MORENO (ESP)
Best oral abstracts in the category for clinical science:
- First place: Jules DERKS (NED)
- Second place: Stefano CRINÒ (ITA)
- Third place: Cédric NESTI (SUI)
- Third place: Markus PUHLMANN (USA)
ENETS Synergy Grant winner:
- Halfdan SORBYE (NOR)
Winner of the Håkan Ahlman Award 2023:
Wenzel HACKENG (NED)
For his outstanding article entitled
“Non-functional pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours: ATRX/DAXX and alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) are prognostically independent from ARX/PDX1 expression and tumour size.”
Other educational and scientific awards bestowed in 2023
ENETS CoE Preceptorship winners:
- Niloefar Ahmadi Bidakhvidi (BEL)
- Oana Ciobanu (ROU)
- Maribel del Olmo Garcia (ESP)
- Odeta Islam (BEL)
Grant and Award Recipients in 2022
NextGEN ENETS
The premier NextGEN ENETS Scientific Workshop took place on 7 – 8 October 2022 in Knivsta, Sweden. ENETS awarded 13 young NET researchers the chance to attend this workshop:
- Niloefar Ahmadi Bidakhvdi (BEL)
- Oana Ciobanu (ROU)
- Dominique Clement (GBR)
- Alejandro Garcia Alvarez (ESP)
- Damian Jacenik (POL)
- Anna La Salvia (ITA)
- Eleonora Lauricella (ITA)
- Bettina Lehman (GER)
- Alberto Lens Pardo (ESP)
- Laura Mariën (BEL)
- Olof Pettersson (SWE)
- Tobias Stemann Lau (DEN)
- Maria Wedin (SWE)
19th Annual ENETS Conference 2022
The following grants and awards have been awarded within the framework of the 19th Annual ENETS Conference 2022 and 1st World NET Forum 2022.
Best oral abstracts in the category for basic science:
- First place: Ilaria Marinoni (SUI)
- Second place: Louis de Mestier (FRA)
- Third place: Simon April-Monn (SUI)
- Fourth place: Ricardo Blázquez-Encinas (ESP)
- Fifth place: Po Hien Ear (USA)
Best oral abstracts in the category for clinical science:
- First place: Andreas Pascher (GER)
- Second place: Tobias Else (USA)
- Third place: Hege Elvebakken (NOR)
- Fourth place: Ramin Alipour (AUS)
- Fifth place: Sarah Fodil-Cherif (FRA)
Best poster presentation in the category for basic science:
- Melissa Frizziero (GBR)
Best poster presentation in the category for clinical science:
- Giovanni Centonze (ITA)
Håkan Ahlman Award Winners:
Erik Elias (SWE) and Arman Ardalan (SWE)
For their outstanding article entitled “Independent somatic evolution underlies clustered neuroendocrine tumors in the human small intestine” in nature communications (2021) 12: 6367.
Grant and Award Recipients in 2021
The following grants and awards have been awarded within the framework of the 18th Annual ENETS Conference 2021 to:
ENETS Translational Medicine Fellowship:
- Jules Derks (NED)
Best oral abstracts in the category for basic science:
- First place: Kenta Kawasaki (JPN)
- Second place: Talya Dayton (NED)
Best oral abstracts in the category for clinical science:
- First place: Riccardo Laudicella (ITA)
- Second place: Uli Fehrenbach (GER)
Best poster prizes in the category for basic science:
- Eugenia Xu (USA), Gitta Boons (BEL), Angela Lamarca (GBR), Beatriz Soldevilla (ESP), Lulu Tanno (GBR)
Best poster prizes in the category for clinical science:
- David Chan (AUS), Mark Kidd (USA), Ieva Lase (SWE), Jiangyuan Yu (CHN), Wenjia Zhu (CHN)
Grant and Award Recipients in 2020
The following grants and awards have been awarded within the framework of the 17th Annual ENETS Conference 2020 to:
ENETS Centers of Excellence (CoE) Training Fellowship:
- Samia Arifi (MAR)
- Katarzyna Blazejczyk (GER)
- Kosmas Daskalakis (SWE)
- Marisa Peralta Ferreira (POR)
- Marina Tsoli (GRE)
- Vasiliki Venetsanaki (GRE)
Grant and Award Recipients in 2019
The following grants and awards have been awarded within the framework of the 16th Annual ENETS Conference 2019 to:
ENETS Centers of Excellence (CoE) Synergy Grant:
- Jerome Cros (FRA)
- Alberto Larghi (ITA)
- Ilaria Marinoni (SUI)
ENETS Translational Medicine Fellowship:
- Valentina Andreasi (ITA)
ENETS Centers of Excellence (CoE) Training Fellowship:
- Virginia Liberini (ITA)
- Vera Megdanova (BUL)
Best oral abstracts in the category for basic science:
- First place: Lynnette Fernandez-Cuesta (FRA)
- Second place: Teresa Sposito (GBR)
Best oral abstracts in the category for clinical science:
- First place: Anela Blazevic (NED)
- First place: Jaume Capdevila (ESP)
- Second place: Grace Kong (AUS)
Best poster prizes in the category for basic science:
- First place: Talya Dayton (NED)
- Second place: Sergio Pedraza-Arévalo (ESP)
- Third place: Alison Berner (GBR)
Best poster prizes in the category for clinical science:
- First place: Teodora Kolarova (USA)
- Second place: Joakim Crona (SWE)
- Third place: Paula Jimenez-Fonseca (ESP)
Historical Scientific Grant Winners
Below is a list of scientific grant recipients prior to 2019:
ENETS CoE Excellence Academy Fellowship:
- Jorge Barriuso (GBR), awarded in 2017
- Mauro Cives (ITA), awarded in 2017
- Henning Jann (GER), awarded in 2015
- Elettra Merola (ITA), awarded in 2017
- Christodoulos Pipinikas (GBR), awarded in 2017
ENETS CoE Young Investigator Grant:
- Alexa Childs (GBR), awarded in 2017
- Joakim Crona (SWE), awarded in 2016
- Jerome Cros (FRA), awarded in 2015
- Melissa Frizziero (GBR), awarded in 2018
ENETS Translational Medicine Fellowship (co-sponsored by IPSEN):
- Su Chen Li (SWE), awarded in 2015
- Gianfranca Corna (ITA), awarded in 2017
Håkan Ahlman Award:
- Vincenzo Corbo (ITA), awarded in 2018
- Ilaria Marinoni (SUI), awarded in 2015
- Rajesh Thakker (GBR), awarded in 2017