The EASD Early Career Academy

The EASD Early Career Academy is an initiative to support, train, mentor, and create opportunities for scientists, clinicians, and students who are at an early or intermediate stage of their career, with an interest in diabetes research and/or clinical practice.

Its core objective is to provide unique opportunities for development, a platform for exchange of knowledge and experience, peer-support, and interaction with the wider EASD community.

Through these activities it will support and motivate early-career researchers and clinicians in the field of diabetes to become the future leaders that pursue excellence in diabetes care and research.

The EASD Early Career Academy stands for the highest research standards and open science.

The EASD Early Career Academy will provide fellows with the SCOPE for innovation and development.

1. SHARE: develop an international network of early-career researchers and clinicians who can share experience and learning in research training and associated activities, share expertise, tips and job opportunities and offer peer-support.
2. COLLABORATE: foster an environment that enables greater scientific collaboration addressing scientific needs and sharing of resources and ideas to stimulate research excellence, training, and innovation for the benefit of people with diabetes.
3. OPPORTUNITY: advance the progression of early-career diabetes professionals by improving accessibility to unique opportunities within and beyond the EASD organisation allowing EASD Early Career Academy fellows to experience a breadth of opportunities related to diabetes research and practice outside the organisation.
4. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: offer career-oriented workshops, webinars to empower the highest scientific standards in research and clinical practice.
5. EMBRACE: support early career researchers and students with mentorship from appropriate faculty and investigators, internationally.

EASD Early Career Academy at the EASD Annual Meeting 2024

We were again actively involved in the development of the programme for the EASD Annual Meeting 2024 in Madrid and organised several attractive sessions.

For the second time, we've also evaluated the abstracts submitted for the Annual Meeting to assign the 'Best Abstract Awards' to one early career researcher per scientific track.

Congratulations to all eight awardees on receiving the 'Best Abstract Awards' 2024!

Best Abstract Award recipients are: Evi Koene, Theodore Dos Santos, Henrik Maagensen, Lorenzo Semeia, Madeleine Hayman, Jolien De Meulemeester, Ananya Muthukumar, Rebecka Bergdal (from left to right).

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