Purpose: To recognise a member of the Young ISHAM community who has made a significant contribution to their field and shows promise as a future key opinion leader.
Selection: Nominations are made from the ISHAM membership. An independent panel judge the applications.
Number awarded: 2 – one in basic mycology and one in clinical mycology.
Prize: A certificate, CHF 1,000, a travel grant of CHF 400 to attend the ISHAM Congress and the recipients will be invited to give a short lecture at the Congress.
| Recipient – Basic Mycology | Recipient – Clinical Mycology | Year of Award |
| Sadegh Khodavaisy “Title to be announced” |
Lottie Brown “Title to be announced” |
2025 |
| Duncan Wilson “Counteracting nutritional immunity – micronutrient scavenging by human fungal pathogens” |
Aleksandra Barac “The fungi on sinonasal mucosa: normal content or silent threat?” |
2018 |
| Ferry Hagen “A retrospective molecular diagnostic study to detect Cryptococcus gattii in formalin fixed paraffin embedded pulmonary coin lesions” |
Frank L van de Veerdonk “Elucidating antifungal host defence via primary immunodeficiencies” |
2015 |
| Clarissa Nobile “The molecular mechanisms of biofilm formation by Candida albicans” |
Stepanie Diezmann “Fungal evolution, phylogeny, population divergence and epidemiology of pathogenic yeasts” |
2012 |