Awards and Grants – Swiss Sleep

General Information

Borbély Hess Fellowship: Information

SSSSC Award: Information (new guidelines!!)

SSSSC Travel Fellowships for Students & Postdoc Members: Travel Grants Guide

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2024

Winner of the 2024 Award for the best Clinical Sleep Research:
Jacinthe Cataldi, for the paper “Shared EEG correlates
between non REM parasomnia experiences and dreams”

Théo Imler for the best poster in Clinical Sleep Research

Winner of the 2024 Award for the best Basic Sleep Research: Maxime Jan for the paper “Model integration of circadian and sleep-wake driven contributions to rhythmic gene expression reveals distinct regulatory principles”

Elisabeth Hertenstein for the best oral presentation in Clinical Sleep Research

Rafael Lazar for the best oral presentation in Basic Sleep Research

Yan Yudong for the best poster in Basic Sleep Research

Photo by Irina Filchenko

2023

Winner of the 2023 Award for the best Basic Sleep Research: Mattia Aime, for the paper “Paradoxical somatodendritic decoupling supports cortical plasticity during REM sleep“

Irina Filchenko for the best oral presentation in Clinical Sleep Research

Gianandrea Broglia for the best oral presentation in Basic Sleep Research

Carlotta Schneider for the poster in Clinical Sleep Research

Sven Leach for the best poster in Basic Sleep Research

2022

Winner of the 2022 Award for the best Basic Science Poster: Sophia Snipes, for the poster entitled “Local changes in theta power of the electroencephalogram during cognitive tasks under sleep deprivation”

Winner of the 2022 Award for the best Clinical Poster: Nicola Marchi, for the poster entitled “MRI measurement of brain iron content in obstructive sleep apnea: the HypnoLaus study”

Winner of the 2022 Award for the best Basic Science Data Flash Presentation: Najma Cherrad, for the paper “Chemogenetic activation of vGluT2-expressing neurons in the nodose ganglion of the left vagus nerve suppresses rapid-eye-movement sleep in mice”

Winner of the 2022 Award for the best Clinical Science Data Flash Presentation: Ximena Omlin, for the paper “Sleep and cognition following therapy for insomnia: a randomised, controlled trial of digital cognitive behavioural therapy”

Presented by Paul Franken, Francesca Siclari, Thorsten Mikoteit

2021

Winner of the 2021 Award for the best Clinical Sleep Research: Georgia Sousouri, for the paper “Sleep Electroencephalographic Asymmetry in Parkinson Disease Patients Before and After Deep Brain Stimulation”

Winner of the 2021 Award for the best data flash presentation: Sara Pierre-Ferrer, for the paper “Circadian VIPergic neurons of the suprachiasmatic nuclei directly control siesta sleep”

Winner of the 2021 Award for the best poster:
Niklas-Alexander Schneider, for the poster entitled “Does enhancing slow wave activity using auditory stimulation boost the restorative function of sleep?”

2019

Winner of the 2019 Award for the best Clinical Sleep Research: Camila Hirotsu, for the Paper “Obstructive sleep apnoea as a risk factor for incident metabolic syndrome: a joined Episono and HypnoLaus prospective cohorts study”

Winner of the 2019 Award for the best oral presentation: Yu-Shiuan Lin, for the paper “Daily Caffeine Consumption Reduces Human Grey Matter in Hippocampus Independent of Sleep Pressure”

Winner of the 2019 Award for the best poster: Romain Cardis, for the poster entitled “Waking up during the night – timing of microarousals in relation to the infraslow oscillation of mouse NREM sleep”

2018

Winner of the 2018 Award for the best poster: Sandro Lecci, University Hospital Lausanne for the poster entitled “Feeling awake while asleep: a high-density EEG assessment of sleep perception”

2017

Winner of the Fellowship 2017: Ben Collins, Zürich for the study on “the circadian clock and sleep”