Our annual meeting in Birmingham 2026 was a huge success with close to 400 attendees. The wide range of topics was widely appreciated, as was the ice-cream, which helped to mitigate the unusually hot weather. Fifteen travel grants were awarded for ECI members to attend the meeting. At the meeting, several awards decided by the International Council of ISHR were given, including the Distinguished Leader Award to Thomas Eschenhagen the Keith Reimer Distinguished Lecture given by Mike Murphy. The ISHR-ES Ketty Schwartz Award Lecture was presented by Gianluigi Condorelli. The ISHR-ES Medal of Merit was awarded to Karin Sipido. Twelve awards were given for best poster presentations. A list of award winners and photos are available below.
- Dates: 22 - 25 June 2026
- Place: Birmingham, UK
- View Programme
- Photo Gallery (below)
Promotional video
ISHR-ES Meeting in Birmingham
This promotional video for ISHR-ES 2026 was recorded at the meeting
Award Winners
Early Career Investigator Awards
First Prize: Giulio Ciucci – (ICGEB, Italy)
Runners up: Thomas Wright (UCL, UK) & Ravi Kumar (KCL, UK)
Travel Grant Award Winners 2026
Each receiving a bursary to attend the ISHR meeting in Toulouse.
View the full winners list
Federica D’Ettorre (Italy)
Ilias Simon (France)
Sara Rega (Italy)
Valentin Jin (France)
Xin Hu (Netherlands)
Ankur Saini (UK)
Jack Keane (UK)
Jade Dron (Belgium)
Catherine (Kei) James (UK)
Corentin Kerevel (France)
Freddy Ganse (Spain)
Mara Kiessling (Austria)
Maxime Gouin-Gravezat (France)
Parisa Keshtkar (UK)
Xinyu (Diana) Zhang (UK)
Poster Prizes
Azra Husetić – Netherlands
Anna Strano – Germany
Valentin Jin – France
Sarah Ung – France
Linda Clochard – Geneva
Stefano Sala – England
Sejal Singal – England
Aiste Liutkute – Germany
Rosie Tudor – Scotland
Tian Lan – Germany
Sara Delgado-Tomás – Spain
Alessia Virzì – Belgium
