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Call for abstracts - 50th Progress Report Meeting - Young Investigators Award Competition (YIAC)

Organized at the Spring Meeting of the Finnish Cardiac Society on April 10, 2024, in Helsinki.

The abstract submission deadline is January 31, 2024 at midnight (UTC+2). Abstract submission service site will be opened in December 2023.

The Progress Report Meeting - Young Investigators Award Competition (YIAC) is one of the major activities of the Finnish Cardiac Society (FCS). The annual competition is open for those Finnish investigators and foreign investigators working in Finland, who have not had their dissertation/doctoral thesis at the time of the competition and/or have not won the competition earlier on. The investigators can submit multiple abstracts, but only one abstract per presenter can be chosen to compete at the YIAC. Acceptance/rejection information will be sent at least 4 weeks before the meeting. All abstracts accepted to the competition will be published in Sydänääni (the membership journal of the FCS).

The abstracts submitted to the Progress Report Meeting must be original scientific research. The competition is open for all unpublished studies and for those research reports which have been published in a peer-reviewed journal after the previous Progress Report Meeting. If the paper has been published in electrical or printed form the presenter must provide written documentation that the publisher has given permission to publish the abstract in Sydänääni. In addition, the presenter of the abstract must have had a major contribution to the study, i.e., he/she must be either the first or second author of the paper and fulfill the above criteria.

Previous categories (clinical research and basic science) are now combined as one. The abstracts must be submitted using the on-line service by the deadline. The abstracts are blind-reviewed and graded based on their scientific merit and originality. Ten best graded abstracts will be presented orally in English as a pitch presentation (5 minutes pitch+ 5 minutes to answer questions from the YIAC judging panel and audience moderated by Chairperson) at the YIAC and the next 10 best graded abstracts will be presented as poster presentations. The meeting and therefore the oral presentations will be in front of a live audience (remote presentation are not possible).

The winner and first runner up of the YIAC will be rewarded with a grant of 1600-3000 € upon the decision of the jury. The organizers reserve the right to grant either one or two firsts or a first and a second prize upon the decision of the jury. Winners will be announced at the Progress Report Meeting 50 Years Anniversary Session on Thursday, April 11th, 2024.

The presenters of the YIAC will have a free admission to the Spring Meeting on April 10-12, 2024, Helsinki and their travel and accommodation costs are covered by the organizers. Presenters of the poster presentations will have a free admission to the Spring Meeting but unfortunately the travel and accommodation costs cannot be covered by the organizers.

Please note that submission of an abstract to a national/regional meeting like the Progress Report Meeting, does not prohibit submission of the same abstract to the major international cardiology congress and vice versa. 

Acceptance or rejection information is sent by e-mail to the presenting/first author’s e-mail by February 28.

Contact information: Finnish Cardiac Society, e-mail: maiju.pikkarainen(at)fincardio.fi or phone +358 (0)50 592 1846.

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Miksi kannattaa osallistua?

Kts. alla Progress Report raadin pitkäaikaisen jäsenen, professori Juhani Airaksisen, haastatteluvideo siitä, miksi osallistuminen YIAC kisaan kannattaa.

 

 

HUOM, Progress Report Young Investigators Award Competition osio keskiviikkona 26.4.2023 on maksuton kiinnostuneille tutkijoille, tutkimusryhmän jäsenille sekä lääketieteen opiskelijoille. Osallistumisoikeus ainoastaan ko. osioon, ei sisällä muuta tieteellistä ohjelmaa tai näyttelyyn tutustumista. Vain tähän osioon osallistuville on oma ilmoittautumislinkki Kevätkokouksen ilmoittautumisen yhteydessä.

Progress Report YIAC kilpailua tukee sopimuspohjaisella koulutusapurahalla Boehringer Ingelheim Finland Ky.

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Progress Report abstraktikirjat

Katso aiempien kisojen abstraktikirjat julkaisut kansiosta.

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Missä kilpailun aiemmat voittajat ovat nyt?

Katso historiikki.

 

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History of the Progress Report Meetings 

Progress Report Meeting is organized by Finnish Cardiac Society to present opportunity for young investigators to report results of their studies. An important point is also training in presenting scientific papers to criticism of senior colleagues.

Boehringer Ingelheim has supported organizing the meeting from the beginning, 1975 by helping in practical matters and presenting grants to the best of speakers.

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Winners of the Boehringer Ingelheim grants

From year 2007 onwards the competition has had two categories instead of 1st and 2nd prize.

Year	1st Prize	2nd Prize
1975	Erkki Pesonen	--
1976	Heikki Karppanen	Markku S. Nieminen
1977	Matti Halinen	Ulla Korhonen
1978	Ilkka Torstila	Markku S. Nieminen
1979	Olli Meretoja	Aila Rissanen
1980	Jorma Viikari	Jouko Jalonen
1981	Markku Kupari	Irma Koivula
1982	Heikki Huikuri	Markku Kupari
1983	Seppo Hietakorpi	Kari Niemelä
1984	Markku Laakso	Heikki Huikuri
1985	Jukka Räisänen	Kari Niemelä
1986	Pekka Koskinen	Juha Mustonen
1987	Kimmo Mattila	Silja Majahalme
1988	Heikki Tikkanen	Paula Rämö
1989	Hannu Näveri	Keijo Peuhkurinen
1990	Markku Mäkijärvi	Juhani Valkama
1991	Eero Mervaala	Paavo Uusimaa
1992	Eero Mervaala	Anne Remes
1993	Juha Hartikainen	Helena Kovanen
1994	Kai Kiilavuori	Juha Perkiömäki
1995	Sirkku Pikkujämsä	Pasi Tavi
1996	Jorma Kokkonen	Timo Mäkikallio
1997	Pekka Raatikainen	Marja Laitinen
1998	Marja Laitinen	Antti Ylitalo, 3rd Prize Timo Mäkikallio
1999	Mika Laine	Timo Mäkikallio
2000	Saila Vikman	Antti Kivelä
2001	Jari Tapanainen	Pertti Jääskeläinen
2002	Tuomas Rissanen	Markku Pentikäinen
2003	Juhani Junttila	Markus Leskinen
2004	Jere Paavola	Tuomas Rissanen
2005	Mikko Mäyränpää	Satu Helske
2006	Olli Tenhunen	Johan Lassus
Year	Basic Science category	Clinical Research category
2007	Satu Helske	Ville Kytö
2008	Mirella Hietaniemi	Minna Kylmälä
2009	Johanna Lähteenvuo o.s. Markkanen	Annukka Marjamaa
2010	1st Prize Jani Tikkanen 2nd Prize Riina Kandolin	sarjat yhdistetty
2011	Markku Lähteenvuo	Aapo Aro
2012	1st Prize Kirsi Kujala 2nd Prize Maija Bry	sarjat yhdistetty
2013	Suvi Syväranta	Toni Grönberg
2014	1st Prize Leena Kaikkonen 2nd Prize Heli Tolppanen	sarjat yhdistetty
2015	1st Prize Aissa Bah 1st Prize Markus Räsänen	sarjat yhdistetty
2016	1st Prize Heli Tolppanen 1st Prize Kaj Ekström	sarjat yhdistetty
2017	Tarja Alakoski	Samuli Jaakkola
2018	1st Prize Maija Ruuth 1st Prize Tero Penttilä	sarjat yhdistetty
2019	Annakaisa Tirronen	Anette Haukilahti
2020	1st Prize Tiia Istolahti  1st Prize Henna Korpela	2nd Prize Vilbert Sikorski
2021	1st Prize Aleksi Leikas	2nd Prize Minna Koivunen
2022	1st Prize Markus Ritvos	2nd Prize Kristiina Harju
2023	1st Prize Anne Doedens	2nd Prize Valtteri Muroke