Awards

Five presentations at ESHRE 2021 have been selected and rewarded with a prize of EURO 2,000. One additional presentation was selected for the FSA Exchange Award. Special award committees, composed of scientists and clinicians made the selection for each award.

Basic Science Award for oral presentation

awarded to the first and presenting author of the best oral presentation on a basic science topic:

Non-invasive, label-free optical analysis to detect aneuploidy within the inner cell mass of the preimplantation embryo

Cheow Yuen Tan (Malaysia)

Clinical Science Award for oral presentation

awarded to the first and presenting author of the best oral presentation on a clinical science topic:

A Genome Wide Association Study in men with unexplained infertility identifies nine SNPs at the FSHB locus to be associated with Follicle Stimulating Hormone level

Maria Schubert (Germany)

Basic Science Award for poster presentation

awarded to the first and presenting author of the best poster presentation on a basic science topic:

Endometrial extracellular vesicles from recurrent implantation failure patients inhibited embryonic growth and implantation via miR-6131/PAK2 pathway

Chang Liu (China)

Clinical Science Award for poster presentation

awarded to the first and presenting author of the best poster presentation on a clinical science topic:

A 16-year bicentric retrospective analysis of ovarian tissue cryopreservation (OTC) in paediatric patients: indications, results and outcome

Marine Grellet-Grün (France)

The Fertility Society of Australia Exchange Award

educational travel grant, to present the data of his/her oral presentation at the annual meeting of the Fertility Society of Australia:

Correcting a PLCζ mutation in the human germ line to overcome hereditary infertility

Bieke Bekaert (Belgium)

The Nurses Award

awarded to the best oral presentation by a nurse:

Chronic pelvic pain is the most troublesome endometriosis pain symptom for women’s quality of life

Paulien Pijpops (Belgium)