Awards

The Niels Lassen Award

The Lassen Award is presented by the International Society for Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism to recognize an outstanding scientific contribution made by a young scientist. The recipient is selected by the Program Committee based on an abstract submitted for presentation at the biennial meeting of the Society.

Qualifications
To be eligible for the Lassen Award, the applicant must be:

  • a member of the Society (ordinary or junior)
  • less than 36 years of age at the time of the Award presentation
  • the primary author of an abstract submitted for presentation at the Brain meeting
Selection
The recipient of the Lassen Award will be selected by the Program Committee of the Society based upon:
  • an indication on the abstract form that the primary author is eligible for the award
  • exceptional quality of the submitted abstract, generally determined by receiving the highest score of all abstracts submitted by eligible members
Description of Award
The Lassen Award will consist of:
  • a bursary to partially defray the expense of attending the Brain meeting
  • an award ceremony prior to the abstract presentation
  • a certificate of recognition
  • $ 1,500 cash prize
The Niels Lassen Award has previously been received by:
1999 - Matthias Endres, Mass. General Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, USA & Exp. Neurology, Charite, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

2001- Sylvain Doré, Departments of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

2003 - Fahmeed Hyder, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

2005 – Kirsten Caesar, Department of Medical Physiology, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark
 

The Lifetime Achievement Award

The first ISCBFM Lifetime Achievement Award were awarded to N. Lassen and D. Ingvar at the Brain 97 meeting.  The award is not a regular award, but is given only occasionally to recognize exceptional contributions to the Society.  Nominations can be received from any member of the Society and reviewed by the Nominating Committee.  Their recommendation are discussed and voted on at a regular meeting of the Directors or the vote could be by mail if there was to be no meeting of the Board prior to the proposed date of the award.  The Directors voted unanimously to establish this award and to have recommendations presented by the Nominating Committee for a vote of the Directors for each award.

The Lifetime Achievement Award has previously been received by:
1997 - Niels A. Lassen and David H. Ingvar
1999 - Seymour S. Kety and Louis Sokoloff
2001 - Fumio Gotoh
2003 - Fred Plum and Bo K. Siesjo
2005 – Martin Reivich
2007 – Peter Hossmann