Early Career Investigator Oral and Poster Awards
Supported by the High Blood Pressure Research Council of Australia (oral)
Supported by Clinical Science (poster)

These awards areto encourage membership and foster active participation of early career investigators in the HBPRCA. The candidate must be an early career scientist (up to 10 years post-doctorate, with consideration given for career interruption).

Student Oral and Poster Presentation Awards
Supported by the High Blood Pressure Research Council of Australia

The candidate must be a student currently enrolled in an Honours, Masters or PhD program in a field relevant to the award. The goal of these prizes are to encourage membership and foster active participation of enrolled scholars in the HBPRCA.

Prizes and Eligibility
All finalists are selected based on the ranking of their abstracts submitted by the normal process for presentation at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Council. The winner of each prize will be decided by a specially convened judging panel based on the quality of the data and the presentation.

In order to be eligible for any of the awards listed above, you MUST:

• be a member of the HBPRCA by September 30 in the year of application to qualify.
• be the first author of the abstract
• NOT have published the work presented in the abstract in other than electronic form, at the time of submission.
• NOT to have won an award in same category in the previous year*.

Best Oral Prizes of $1,000 – will be awarded to the best presentation in the Early Career Investigator Oral Award Finalists Session and also to the best Student Oral Presentation.

Best Poster Prizes of $500 will be awarded to the best Early Career Investigator poster presentation and also to the best student poster presentation. In each case the presentation will involve the poster and a mini oral presentation. The Early career Investigator Poster award is sponsored by Clinical Science and includes a certificate and a year's free online access to Clinical Science.

British Hypertension Society Award
Supported by the High Blood Pressure Research Council of Australia and the British Hypertension Society (BHS)

This is single award to the highest scoring presentation from either the Early Career Investigator Oral Award Finalists or the Student Oral Presentation Award Finalists. It is underlines the society's strong alliance with the BHS. The prize is a formal invitation to attend and present at the following BHS Annual Scientific meeting in September. The award comprises an amount of $2,500 towards travel expenses. Accommodation will be provided by the BHS during the meeting in the UK. This money is in addition to the $1,000 received as either the Early Career Investigator Oral winner or the Student Oral Presentation Award winner. The recipient is also expected to visit laboratories with like research interests before or after the meeting. The winner is not eligible for this award in the following year.

*If you won the poster or oral prize last year you are not eligible for the poster or oral prize in this year in the same category. A student winner who becomes a full member of the Council is eligible for the Early Career Investigator award the following year.