Malcolm Winterburn
APSR / Malcolm Winterburn Lung Cancer Young Investigator Award
This Award is offered for the best lung cancer paper accepted for presentation at the APSR Congress in Hanoi 14–17 November 2019.
This award is named in honour of Malcolm Winterburn, engineer, family man and beloved friend who died all too young.
This award is generously provided by Dr Andrew Bush for the advancement of lung cancer research by an APSR Young Investigator from an Asia-Pacific LMIC* who is presenting original work at the APSR Congress.
Dr Bush is Professor of Paediatrics and Head of Section (Paediatrics, Imperial College London), Professor of Paediatric Respirology, National Heart and Lung Institute, and Consultant Paediatric Chest Physician, Royal Brompton Harefield NHS Foundation Trust.
Award includes:
- $500 (funded by Dr Andrew Bush)
- Invitation to the Gala Dinner (or similar social event) at the Congress
- Commemorative certificate
Eligibility:
The awardee must be:- an APSR member (en bloc or individual)
- aged ≤40 at the start of the Congress
- normally resident in the Asia-Pacific, in a country or region that is an LMIC (low-to-middle income country)*
- The First Author and able to present the paper in person at the Congress
- Not a winner of any other award for the same paper
- Registered for the Congress by the abstract submission deadline
Selection:
- The paper is selected by the Local Congress Committee, supported by the APSR Lung Cancer Assembly, which ranks the papers for their novelty, importance, methodology, clarity and overall quality. A consensus on the best lung cancer paper is then obtained through a rigorous judging system.
Award presentation:
- The certificate will be presented during the Gala Dinner (or similar social event) at the Congress. Where the paper has more than one author, the certificate will be in the name of all the paper's authors.
- The US$500 award will be passed to the First Author by the APSR Secretariat.
- The awardee's name and photograph will appear on the APSR website, Bulletin and social media after the Congress.
Post-congress requirements:
- In accepting the offer of the award, the author attending the Congress is required to send their report (circa 500 words) of their experience at the Congress to the APSR Secretariat within one month after the Congress. The report may be published in the APSR Bulletin and/or Newsletter.
| * | "LMIC" is defined as a "lower-middle income country", a list of which can be seen at data.worldbank.org/income-level/low-and-middle-income. |
