Research Participation Awards

Congratulations to the following centres that were in the top quintile for

  • the number of studies they participated in and that led to a publication in 2024 and 2025
  • contributing the largest number of cases into these studies

Those centres that were in the top quintile for both criteria were awarded a Gold Award and those that achieved one criterion were awarded a Silver Award.

The 2026 awards will be presented at I-DSD 2026 in Lübeck.

2026 Gold Awards

  • Faisal Ahmed, Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow
  • Federico Baronio, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna
  • Hedi Claahsen, Radboud UMC, Amalia Children’s Hospital, Nijmegen
  • Martine Cools, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent
  • Christa Flück, University of Bern, Bern
  • Tülay Güran, Marmara University Hospital, Istanbul
  • Ayla Güven, Health Sciences University, Istanbul
  • Olaf Hiort, University of Lübeck & University Med Center Schleswig Holstein, Lübeck
  • Inas Mazen, National Research Centre, Cairo
  • Sükran Poyrazoğlu, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul
  • Theo Sas, Erasmus MC -Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam
  • Ajay Thankamony, Cambridge University Hospitals NHSFT, Cambridge
  • Jeremy Tomlinson, University of Oxford Churchill Hospital, Oxford

2026 Silver Awards

  • Eduardo Correa Costa, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre
  • Miguel Debono, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield
  • Gabriella Gazdagh, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton
  • Evgenia Globa, Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Center of Endocrine Surgery, Kyiv
  • Sabine Hannema, University Medical Center, Amsterdam
  • Violeta Iotova, UMHAT Sveta Marina, Varna
  • Anders Juul, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen
  • Daniel Konrad, University of Zurich, Zurich
  • Ruth Krone, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Birmingham
  • Renata Markosyan, Yerevan State Medical University, Yerevan
  • Mirela Miranda, São Paulo University, São Paulo
  • Uta Neumann, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
  • Anna Nordenstrom, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm
  • Rodolfo Rey, Hospital de Niños Ricardo Gutiérrez, Buenos Aires
  • Gianni Russo, Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan
  • Sumudu N Seneviratne, University of Colombo, Colombo
  • Hetty Van Der Kamp, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, Utrecht

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