Description
Candidates for the Young Investigator Award must be pre- or post-doctoral students of no more than 35 years of age and must have submitted a poster abstract to the meeting. Award candidates are selected based on, among other things, the quality of their research as reflected in the submitted abstracts.
Honorees
| 2024 | Masamori Arai, Ian O’Keefe, Hiroki Sekita, Juri Takayama |
| 2021 | Tomoya Uto |
| 2018 | Courtney Chandler, Yanyan Li |
| 2016 | (not presented this year) |
| 2014 | Yelena Lerman, Alberto Yanez |
| 2012 | Rebecca Coll, Brittany Needham |
| 2010 | Thomas Cullen |
| 2008 | Josephin Bartholdson, Quan Nhu |
| 2006 | Leah Cole, Julie Eitel, Tomas Koprivnjak, Meenakshi Malik |
| 2004 | |
| 2002 | Brian McNeill, Yoshinori Nagai, Nicholas Schröder |
| 2000 | M.I. Kinapes, Thomas Merlin, Andra Schromm |
| 1998 | Nicole Iovine, Andre Medvedev, Timna Wycioff |
| 1996 | Monisha Gough, Robin Ingalls, Marjike van Oosten |
| 1994 | |
| 1992 | |
| 1990 | Tai-Ying Chen, Ayman Al-Hendy, Andreas Mackensen |