Announcement

INSTAND Award 2012 / INSTAND Dissertation Award 2012

INSTAND e.V. (Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Qualitätssicherung in medizinischen Laboratorien e.V. awards a prize every two years to support and promote quality assurance and improvement in analytical methods in the fields of clinical chemistry, haematology, hemostaseology, immunology, microbiology, virology and parasitology. The prize is valued at 5.000 €. Those eligible are natural scientists and physicians who have not yet reached the age of 40. Manuscripts can be submitted in either German or English. If publications are submitted, they should not be older than 12 months at the time of submission.

There is a second award for dissertations which is presented at the same time. This is designed to support up and coming scientists working in the field of quality assurance or quality management in the medical diagnostic laboratory. This award is valued at 1.500 €.

The next prizes will be awarded in 2012. The final date for submission of applications is 2012-07-31. They should be addressed to: The Executive Board, Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Qualitätssicherung in medizinischen Laboratorien (INSTAND e.V.), Ubierstrasse 20, D-40223 Düsseldorf, Germany.