Pausing of ILTS society awards – Due to current circumstances, all awards supported by ILTS will be put on hold until further notice. ILTS sincerely hopes to be able to welcome your applications again in the near future. Thank you for your understanding. Awardees identified in 2020 will be honored at the joint International Congress of ILTS, ELITA and LICAGE in 2022.

Vanguard Award

The Vanguard Awards have been instituted to recognize two outstanding ILTS members who are age 42 or younger, for the best papers (one each for clinical, and basic science research) published in any peer-reviewed journal during the previous calendar year. The Awards for 2020 had thus recognized two young members for publications from January 2019 through December 2019.

Applicant Requirements:

• Must be an ILTS member, 42 years old or younger
• Must be first or corresponding author of the paper
• Paper published from January through December of a given year in any peer-reviewed journal, must have a Pubmed citation and not be in press
• To be considered, candidate must upload their manuscript through the ILTS website
• Previous winners are not eligible
• Must attend the ILTS Annual Congress to accept the award (complimentary registration)

Awardees receive:

Cash prize- $1,500 USD

Complimentary registration to the ILTS Annual Congress of the year

→ See list of awardees