Awards — ICBL

ICBL honours scientific excellence through its conferences. Awards are given both to distinguished senior scientists and to young researchers starting their careers — reflecting ICBL's dual mission of advancing the field and mentoring its future.

Young Researcher Awards

At each conference, ICBL supports early-career scientists through three award categories:

Poster Award Competition — the three or four best posters are selected on the basis of scientific and presentational merit.
Best Short Talk Award — recognising outstanding oral presentations by young researchers.
Reduced Registration — students benefit from reduced registration fees, making the meeting accessible to all early-career scientists.

The Van Deenen Lectures

Named in honour of the late Prof. L.L.M. van Deenen, a giant of 20th-century lipid science, the Van Deenen Lectures recognise distinguished contributions to lipid bioscience. A Van Deenen Lecturer is invited at each ICBL to present a plenary address.

Award criteria

Awards are decided by panels chaired by members of the Steering Committee. Criteria balance scientific rigour, originality, and — for young researcher awards — clarity of presentation and discussion. Details are confirmed in the programme of each conference.

Award winners — 65th ICBL, Innsbruck 2025

Award ceremony at the 65th ICBL in Innsbruck, Austria — winners receiving certificates on stage — Award ceremony at the 65th ICBL — Innsbruck, Austria (September 2025).

Best Short Talk Award — Suravi Mukherjee
Poster Award — Viktorija Juric
Poster Award — Jessica Popottnigg

The award session was supported by Lipotype.

Award winners — 64th ICBL, Taipei 2024

Group photo of award winners and attendees on the staircase at the 64th ICBL in Taipei — Award-ceremony group photo at the 64th ICBL — Taipei, Taiwan (October 2024).

ICBL Poster Awards

Session 1 — Chia-Hsin Liu (School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taiwan)
Session 2 — Yu-Feng Xu (Institute of Biochemistry, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan)
Session 3 — Yu-Chun Lin (Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
Session 4 — Yutaro Kuwashima (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Keio University, Japan)
Session 5 — Derek Norman (Department of Physiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA)
Session 6 — Izumi Tsukayama (Department of Nutrition Science, Okayama Prefectural University, Japan)

MDPI Metabolites Outstanding Poster Awards

Chen-Yu Chang (Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Chang Gung University, Taiwan)
You-Liang Cheng (Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

ICBL Short Talk & Young Researcher Awards

Short Talk Award — Stephen Ruiz (Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, USA)
Young Researcher Award — Karim Pérez-Romero (Health Research Institute of the Balearic Islands, IdISBa, Spain)

See the full 64th ICBL — Taipei 2024 conference page for the programme and award details.

Award winners — 62nd ICBL, Montreal 2022

Nathalie Burchat receiving the 1st prize for the selected talk at the 62nd ICBL in Montreal — 1st Prize, Selected Talk — Nathalie Burchat (Sampath lab, Rutgers University, USA).

Elite Possik receiving the 2nd prize for the selected talk at the 62nd ICBL in Montreal — 2nd Prize, Selected Talk — Elite Possik (Prentki lab, Université de Montréal, Canada).

Shingo Nakajima receiving the 3rd prize for the selected talk at the 62nd ICBL in Montreal — 3rd Prize, Selected Talk — Shingo Nakajima (Fulton lab, CrCHUM, Canada).

Best Short Talk Awards

1st Prize — Nathalie Burchat (PhD student, Sampath lab, Rutgers University, USA) — "Intestinal Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase 1 modulates intestinal and systemic lipid metabolism and energy homeostasis"
2nd Prize — Elite Possik (Postdoctoral Fellow, Prentki lab, Université de Montréal, Canada) — "G3PP/PGPH-2: a novel dietary restriction mimetic enzyme that protects from glucolipotoxicity and promotes healthy aging via the AMPK–TFEB–Autophagy axis in C. elegans"
3rd Prize — Shingo Nakajima (Postdoctoral Fellow, Fulton lab, CrCHUM, Canada) — "GPR120 activation increases the activity of primary midbrain dopamine neurons"

Poster Awards

Antoine Jutras-Carignan (PhD, UQAM, Canada) — "Regulation of SREBP1c transcriptional activity by oleate"
Romane Manceau (PhD student, Université de Montréal, Canada) — "Neuronal adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL) regulates peripheral metabolism"
Aneta Dobosz (Postdoctoral Fellow, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology PAS, Poland) — "Deficiency of stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 promotes formation and survival of alpha-cells over beta-cells in pancreatic islets"
Carina Wagner (Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Austria) — "KIAA1363-deficiency in hepatic stellate cells impairs retinyl ester turnover at the endoplasmic reticulum"
Gaétan Ravaut (PhD student, UQAM, Canada) — "Functional Schwann cells partially rescued after ketogenic diet exposure in mouse model of Krabbe's disease"
Yuan Chi (PhD student, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan) — "12-HHT–BLT2 axis promotes membrane repair and protects epithelial cells from pore-forming toxin-induced cell death"