SADS Foundation :: Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes Foundation

 2008 Award Winner

The Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes (SADS) Foundation would like to encourage the next generation of researchers in SADS conditions. Therefore, we are announcing the 2nd Annual SADS Foundation Young Investigator Award in Cardiac Channelopathies. The Award will be administered by the Pediatric and Congenital EP Society (PACES), and will be presented at the annual PACES evening meeting at HRS in Boston. 

To encourage the next generation of researchers in SADS conditions, the Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes (SADS) Foundation is announcing the Second Annual SADS Foundation Young Investigator Award in Cardiac Channelopathies. The Award will be administered by the Pediatric and Congenital EP Society (PACES), and will be presented at the annual PACES evening meeting, Wednesday May 13th at the Heart Rhythm Society Scientific Sessions.

Overview:

The SADS Foundation Young Investigator Award in Cardiac Channelopathies will recognize an outstanding, original academic work in the field of cardiac channelopathies, which has not been published prior to the 2009 Heart Rhythm Society annual meeting, and/or presented in the prior year by a junior investigator.

Specific Criteria:

• The first author candidate should be a medical student, graduate student, resident, fellow, postdoctoral fellow or junior investigator with up to 3 years of faculty appointment. However, there are no minimum or maximum age criteria. Training dates should be documented in a cover letter.

• Submission of a manuscript addressing any area of the field of Cardiac Channelopathies, clinical or basic science, which has not been published prior to the last HRS annual meeting. The manuscript can be in press, submitted, or pre-submission. The manuscript may be associated with an abstract submitted to the HRS meeting, but such submission is not required. Submission for the award should be in a single PDF file, inclusive of all figures.
• The manuscript may be submitted simultaneously for the Will Webster Prize in Pediatric Electrophysiology 2009 by so indicating in the cover letter, if the criteria for that award are also met.
  

• Submission DEADLINE, APRIL 15, 2010

Award:

• $500 to the recipient
• $1,250 to the institution to offset the cost of the annual meeting
• Recognition with a SADS Foundation YIA plaque
•  Presentation of the award at the annual PACES meeting on Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Submissions should be e-mailed as a single PDF file including the cover letter to the selection committee chair, J. Philip Saul, MD no later than APRIL 15, 2009 at:

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