The Early Career Award in Plasma Medicine (ECAPM) will be awarded to early-career researchers who achieved outstanding work and made a significant contribution to the advancement in the field of Plasma Medicine (independently from their mentors or advisors if any). Normally, the ECAPM is awarded by the ISPM Board typically to one individual every two years during the International Conference on Plasma Medicine. However, it is at the discretion of the ISPM Board to award the ECAPM to multiple individuals or to no individual.

The following procedure will be used to implement this rule:

• The ISPM president will request nominations for candidates for the ECPMA no later than three months before the ISPM Board meeting at the International Conference on Plasma Medicine (ICPM).
• Nominations will be requested from the entire membership of the ISPM. Nominations need to contain a nomination letter, describing the achievements of the candidate and a complete curriculum vitae.

Award: Early Career Award in Plasma Medicine (ECAPM) Purpose: To recognize and encourage early-career researchers for their outstanding work in Plasma Medicine.
Eligibility: The nominee must have received his/her first Ph.D. degree (or a degree equivalent to Ph.D.) after Jan. 1, 2011 (i.e. less than 12 years post Ph.D. as of Jan. 1, 2023). One year will be added to each child of the nominee.
Nomination: By ISPM members (nominations by at least 2 ISPM members are required for each candidate). No self-nomination is accepted. Nominations should contain a nomination letter, describing the achievements of the candidate and a complete curriculum vitae.

Previous Early Career Award in Plasma Medicine recipients

• 2016 awardees
  • XinPei Lu (HuaZhong University of Science and Technology / P.R. China)
• 2018 awardees
  • Cristina Canal (UPC Barcelona Tech /Spain)
  • Matteo Gherardi (Università di Bologna / Italia)
• 2021 awardees
  • Nagendra Kaushik (Kwangwoon University / South Korea)
  • Sander Bekeschus (INP Greifswald / Germany)
  • Endre Szili (University of South Australia / Australia)
• 2022 awardee
  • Katharina Stapelmann (NC State University / USA)
• 2024 awardee
  • Augusto Stancampiano (University of Orleans / France)