YIA Guidelines

The Young Investigator Award will be presented during the next annual meeting of the Belgian Society of Cardiology.

The award of € 6,500 will be given to an individual, whose research reflects new and relevant work alternating each year, in basic or clinical research in cardiology.

The 2019 YIA is dedicated to “Clinical Research”: “research centered on the patients and aimed to determine the role of medication, intervention, diagnosis, symptoms and prevention in the physiological or pathological process”.

ELIGIBILITY
This award is restricted to investigators of no more than 35 years of age (on 31st January 2019). The work must be original and have been performed in a Belgian institution.

SCOPE AND REQUIREMENTS
The purpose of this award is to foster young physicians and research fellows in the field of cardiovascular diseases.

THE APPLICANTS MUST:
Submit electronically a “standard” one page abstract in English, and choose a submission category from the proposed categories, presented in the abstract submission system.

Select the YIA submission box in the online submission process (this option will be automatically generated when you are younger than 36 year old).
By submitting the abstract for consideration for the YIA, the applicant confirms that he/she read and agrees with the rules for YIA submission.

Submit electronically a three to five page scientific paper (inclusive of graphs and tables) describing aims, methods and results. Full-length manuscripts will not be considered.

By submitting the abstract for consideration for the YIA, the applicant confirms that he/she read and agrees with the rules for YIA submission.

Authors must not submit more than one abstract for the YIA award.

Be the main investigator of the original work presented. This also implies that in case of publication as a full-length paper in a peer reviewed journal, the applicant should appear as the first author.

PROCEDURE
The Scientific Committee of the BSC will review all entries and will accept three abstracts to be presented at the annual meeting of the BSC. The submitted papers will be judged on innovativeness, originality, scientific merit and relevance.

The candidates will be informed of the decision of the Board in December. If the work is chosen for award consideration, the candidate will be expected to deliver a 15-minutes presentation followed by a formal discussion during the annual BSC meeting in February 2019.

The award winning presentation will be selected by an international panel of experts, after the session devoted to these presentations.

Papers to be considered by the committee should be sent via the congress on-line abstract submission system. The submission deadline is Tuesday 25th September 2018 (23h59). The submitter is expected to be fully familiar with the YIA rules and the content of the general “BSC Abstracts submission rules and guidelines” document.