International Society of Hypertension

ISH Awards and Prizes

ISH 2024 Biennial Awards – presented in Cartagena, Colombia

ISH 2024 Award winners

ISH 2024 Franz Volhard Award and Lectureship awardee: Prof. Stephen Harrap

Awards Committee

The Awards Committee assists with the selection of awards to individuals, groups or institutions honoured by the Society.
This Committee is chaired by the President of the Society (or nominee) and has at least four other members of whom one is the Secretary of the Society.
The Awards Committee will assess applications equally on their merits and eligibility.

Further details about the ISH Committees

Eligibility of Awardees

Nominations will only be accepted for ISH members, with the exception of the ISH Paul Korner and ISH Honorary Fellow Awards.
Nominations for previous winners of the following ISH awards might be considered if there is an outstanding independent case for that individual.

ISH Franz Volhard Award and Lectureship for Outstanding Research
ISH Robert Tigerstedt Lifetime Achievement Award
ISH Developing World Award
ISH Paul Korner Award

Current ISH Council members, Awards Committee members, committee and group chairs will not be eligible to receive awards.
Members of committees other than those mentioned above may be eligible to receive awards, at the discretion of the ISH Awards Committee (unless previous winners of previous ISH awards – as listed above).
Award recipients will normally be required to accept awards in person during the ISH Biennial Scientific Meetings.

How to make a nomination

A completed nomination form that will include the information below

Who is nominated (self-nomination is not acceptable)
For which award is the nomination
Justification for nomination
Name and affiliation of primary and secondary sponsors who are both members of the ISH
Confirmation that the nominee has agreed to be nominated
Supporting documentation demonstrating nominee’s eligibility

A copy of the nominee’s curriculum vitae – to be submitted electronically to the Chair of the ISH Awards Committee.
Those making award nominations must be current ISH members.
All communication should be addressed to the Chair of the ISH Awards Committee.Contact ISH

ISH Franz Volhard Award and Lectureship for Outstanding Research

This award and lectureship was originally endowed by Farbwerke Hoechst in 1972 to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Franz Volhard. The ISH currently sponsors this Award.
The award shall be made to a person or persons who, in the opinion of the Awards Committee of the Society, shall have initiated in the field of hypertension or in a related discipline, a concept which remains of current interest.
The recipient shall be invited to deliver to the Society a lecture at the ISH Biennial Scientific Meeting on the topic for which the award is bestowed. Award nominators must clearly state the concept that the nominee has initiated which remains of current interest and provide supporting evidence.

Past Winners:

2024 Stephen Harrap (Australia), 2022 Suzanne Oparil (USA), 2021 Ernesto Schiffrin (Canada), 2018 Mark Caulfield (UK), 2016 Michel Safar (France), 2014 Toshiro Fujita (Japan), 2012 John Hall (USA), 2010 Graham MacGregor (UK), 2008 Thomas Pickering (USA), 2006 Guiseppe Mancia (Italy) 2004 Harry Gavras (USA), 2002 Hans Brunner (Switzerland), 2000 Lewis Landsberg (USA), 1998 John P Chalmers (Australia), 1996 Hugh de Wardener (UK), 1994 Eric Muirhead (USA), 1992 Colin Johnston (Australia), 1990 John Shepherd (USA), 1988 Louis Tobian (USA), 1986 Alberto Zanchetti (Italy), 1984 Franz Gross (Germany), 1982 Paul Korner (Australia), 1980 Edgar Haber (USA), 1978 Björn Folkow (Sweden), 1976 Frank Burnet Byrom (UK), 1974 Sir George Pickering (UK)

ISH Robert Tigerstedt Lifetime Achievement Award

This award was originally endowed by Merck Sharp & Dohme International in 1974. The ISH currently sponsors this Award.
The award shall be presented on the recommendation of the Awards Committee of the Society to a person, persons or institution responsible for distinguished work relating to the aetiology, epidemiology, pathology or treatment of high blood pressure.
The achievements of the recipient should reflect distinguished contributions in research, teaching or clinical activities and successful mentorship of younger colleagues.

Past Winners:

2024 Tomasz Guzik (UK) and Rhian Touyz (Canada), 2022 Anna Dominiczak (UK) and Eoin O’Brien (Ireland), 2021 Jan A. H. Staessen (Belgium), 2018 Morris Brown (UK), 2016 Anthony (Tony) Heagerty (UK), 2014 John Funder (Australia), 2012 Lisheng LIU (China), 2010 Jan Danser (Netherlands), 2008 Friedrich C. Luft (Germany), 2006 Richard P. Lifton (USA), 2004 Pierre Corvol (France), 2002 Michel Safar (France), 2000 Murray Esler (Australia), 1998 John E. Hall (USA), 1996 Giuseppe Mancia, 1994, F. Abboud / Gerald F. DiBona / D. Heistad / Allyn Mark (Cardiovascular Research Center, Iowa USA), 1992 Jacques de Champlain (Canada), 1990 Peter Sleight (UK), 1988 Austin Doyle (Australia), 1986 Y.V. Postnov / H. Losse, 1984 A.C. Guyton (USA), 1982 Eric Muirhead (USA), 1980 J.J. Brown / A.F. Lever / J.I.S. Robertson (UK), 1978 J. Bing, 1976 Florey Institute

ISH Developing World Award

This award is for a researcher in the developing world (resource poor countries, zones and territories defined by HINARI) who has done outstanding work in the region.

Past Winners:

2024 Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo (Colombia), 2022 Andre Pascal Kengne (South Africa), 2021 Basden Onwubere (Nigeria), 2018 Hind Beheiry (Sudan), 2016 Huynh Van Minh (Vietnam), 2014 Yakoob Seedat (South Africa), 2012 Tazeen Jafar (Singapore), 2010 Karen Sliwa (South Africa), 2008 Albertino Damasceno (Mozambique), 2006 Terrence Forrester (Jamaica), 2004 O. Akinkugbe (Nigeria), 2002 Lisheng Liu (China)

ISH Paul Korner Award

Supported by the High Blood Pressure Research Foundation of Australia

This award was endowed and continues to be funded by the High Blood Pressure Research Foundation of Australia in 2013 to honour the late Paul Korner (internationally renowned expert in the field of hypertension with a special interest in the neuroscience of blood pressure).
The award shall be presented to a person who has demonstrated outstanding contributions to research on hypertension in the broad fields of neurology and neuroscience.

Past winners:

2024 Yoshitaka Hirooka (Japan), 2022 Daniela Carnevale (Italy), 2021 Frans Leenen (Canada), 2018 Guido Grassi (Italy), 2016 Kamal Rahmouni (USA), 2014 Geoff Head (Australia)

ISH Distinguished Fellow Award

Members who have given outstanding service to the Society and have made unusually distinguished contributions to experimental and clinical research in hypertension may be nominated to be Distinguished Fellows of the Society.

Past winners:

2024 Daniel Piskorz (Argentina), 2022 Sverre Kjeldsen (Norway), 2021 Cheol-Ho Kim (South Korea), Lars H. Lindholm (Sweden), Franz Messerli (Switzerland) and Gianfranco Parati (Italy), 2018 Ernesto Schiffrin (Canada), 2016 Kikuo Arakawa (Japan), 2016 Lisheng Liu (China), 2016 Talma Rosenthal (Israel), 2016 Alberto Zanchetti (Italy), 2014 John E. Hall (USA), 2012 Paul Korner (Australia), 2012 Toshio Ogihara (Japan), 2012 Allyn L. Mark (USA), 2010 Eoin O’Brien (Ireland) and Judith Whitworth (Australia), 2008 Lewis Landsberg (USA), 2006 J.I.S. Robertson (UK), 2004 Karl-Heinz Rahn (Germany), 2002 John Chalmers (Australia)

ISH Honorary Fellow Award

Individuals who have not been Professional Members of the Society but have made extraordinary contributions to the Society or the field of hypertension, in providing long and continuous support of research or of the other activities of the Society, may be nominated to be Honorary Fellows.

Past winners:

2016 Krisela Steyn (South Africa), 2014 Stuart Spencer (UK), 2014 Jane Reckelhoff (USA), 2012 Salim Yusuf (USA), 2008 Richard Horton (UK), 2008 Shanthi Mendis (Switzerland)

ISH Outstanding Woman In Hypertension Research Awards

New Award from 2024

Two Outstanding Woman in Hypertension Research Awards will be offered – one to a researcher in a mid-career position and one to a senior researcher – to recognise, encourage and inspire women in science and medicine in the field of hypertension and related cardiovascular diseases.
Senior women researchers who have given outstanding service to the ISH and / or made exceptionally distinguished contributions to experimental and / or clinical research in hypertension may be nominated to receive an Outstanding Woman in Hypertension Research Award.
The Outstanding Woman in Hypertension Award for a woman in a mid-career position will recognise a woman researcher who is 35-45 years of age or 10 full years after postgraduate qualifications who has given outstanding service to the ISH and / or made exceptional contributions to experimental and / or clinical research in hypertension.

Past winners:

Senior Women Awards – 2024 Louise Burrell (Australia), Dulce Elena Casarini (Brazil) and Alta Schutte (Australia)

Mid-Career Awards – 2024 Mariane Bertagnolli (Canada), Neusa Jessen (Mozambique) and Mansi Patil (India)

ISH New Investigator Oral Presentation Awards

These awards were established in 2012 to encourage new investigators and recognise excellence in scientific contribution and are administered by the Awards Committee, with input from the New Investigator Committee.
They will be awarded at the Biennial Scientific Meetings of the Society to new investigators judged from a group of finalists to have given the best oral and poster presentations at the Biennial Scientific Meetings of the Society.
The finalists will be selected from among eligible presenters on the basis of scores of their abstracts allocated to oral and poster presentation sessions.
The presenters must be new investigators undertaking a research higher degree or within ten years of graduation with a doctoral or equivalent qualification.
The finalists must provide evidence of their research higher degree student status, or the date of their graduation in advance of the Biennial Scientific Meetings.
The winners will be selected by the Awards Committee, or their representative(s), in an open competition during the Biennial Scientific Meetings.

Past winners:

2024 Winner Basic Science Award – Matus Miklovic (Czech Republic) and Winner Clinical Science Award – Anne Myrthe Van Vliet (The Netherlands), 2022 Winner: Chia-Te Liao (Belgium/Taiwan), 2022 Runner Up: Yoko Inagaki (USA), 2021 Winner: Stephanie Cicalese (USA), 2021 Runner Up: Nasheeta Peer (South Africa), 2018 Winner: Fei Wang (USA), 2018 Runner Up: Laure Rouche (France), 2016 Winner: Wioletta Pijacka (UK), 2016 Runner Up: Francine Marques (Australia), 2014 Winner: Lucinda Hilliard (Australia), 2014 Runner Up: Muhammad Oneeb Rehman Mian (Canada), 2012 Alejandro R. Chade (USA)

ISH New Investigator Poster Presentation Awards

Supported by Daiichi-Sankyo in 2012, Supported by Daiichi-Sankyo, Clinical Science, Nature Publishing and Journal of Human Hypertension in 2014, Supported by Daiichi-Sankyo in 2016.
These awards were established in 2012 to encourage new investigators and recognise excellence in scientific contribution.
They were awarded at the Biennial Scientific Meetings of the Society to new investigators judged from a group of finalists to have given the best poster presentations at the Biennial Scientific Meetings of the Society.
Finalists were selected from among eligible presenters on the basis of scores of their abstracts allocated to poster presentations.
The presenting and responsible author was a new investigator undertaking a research higher degree or within ten years of graduation with a doctoral or equivalent qualification.

Past winners:

2024

Basic: Jéssyca Milene Ribeiro (WINNER) (Brazil)

Clinical: Niamh Chapman (WINNER) (Australia)

Not awarded at the ISH Scientific Meetings in 2021 and 2022

2018

Basic: Yuya Akagi (WINNER) (Japan)

Priscilla Prestes (RUNNER UP) (Australia)

Clinical: Troy Puar (WINNER) (Singapore)

Francesca Saladini (RUNNER UP) (Italy)

Population: Rik Olde Engberink (WINNER) (Netherlands)

Qianhui Guo (RUNNER UP) (China)

2016

Basic: Suang Suang Koid (WINNER) (Australia)

Elena Velkoska (RUNNER UP) (Australia)

Clinical: Telmo Pereira (WINNER) (Portugal)

Jing Sug Kim (RUNNER UP) (South Korea)

Population: Manja Zec (WINNER) (Austria)

Mattias Gabriel Zanuzzi (RUNNER UP) (Argentina)

2014

Basic: Silvia Montecone (WINNER) (Italy)

Katrina Mirabito (RUNNER UP) (Australia)

Clinical: Aurélien Lorthioir (WINNER) (France)

Maria Gosk (RUNNER UP) (Poland)

Population: Nicolas Verheyen (WINNER) (Austria)

Yi Zhang (RUNNER UP) (China)

2012

Ibrahim Salaman (WINNER) (Australia)

Discontinued Awards

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