EFSUMB Young Investigator's Award 2006

Each year, each member society of EFSUMB is invited to nominate a member of their society to present a paper in the Young Investigator's Award session of the EUROSON Congress. Applicants must be under 35 years of age at the opening date of the Congress, and must be a paid up member of the nominating society. The member society must agree to sponsor their candidate for the cost of their travel and accommodation expenses, and the organising committee of the conference offer the candidates free registration at the meeting. One or two prizes of €1.000 are awarded to the candidates, judged by an ad-hoc committee to be best in terms of scientific content and quality of presentation. This year entries were received from 5 national societies (Denmark, Italy, Norway, Netherlands, UK), and as always the quality of the presentations was excellent. The winner on this occasion was Martijn Frijlink from the Netherlands with his outstanding presentation on 'Harmonic Intravascular Ultrasound'. I would like to encourage all societies to consider nominating one of their outstanding young members for the 2007 competition to be held in Leipzig in October of this year. I would also commend attendance at the Young Investigators session to the membership in general; for me it is one of the highlights of the meeting.

Prof David Evans

EFSUMB President