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Awards 2025

Here you can find all the details about the different awards and award winners honored at the SOHC 2025.

SOHC Presidential Symposium

Chairs: Anne Angelillo-Scherrer (Bern), Miklos Pless (Winterthur), Andreas Wicki (Zurich)

Wednesday, 19.11.2025 from 18h00 - 19h30, Boston 1-2

The following awards will be granted during the session:

SOHC Best Abstract Awards

  • SSH award for hemostasis, transfusion medicine, vascular, laboratory medicine, benign hematology
    Abstract Award Winner: R. Diab
    Enhancing hemostasis in Glanzmann thrombasthenia via protein S inhibition

  • SSMO/SSH award for clinical hemato-oncology
    Abstract Award Winner: A. Stathis
    Feasibility of ctDNA and PET guided therapy in untreated DLBCL. preliminary results of the SAKK 38/19 phase II trial

  • SSMO/SSH award for experimental hematology / oncology
    Abstract Award Winner: S. Arunasalam, S. Hallenberger-Jungius, C. Albrecht
    Loss of SHP2 reduces JAK2V617F hematopoietic stem cell clone size and corrects MPN phenotype in preclinical models and patient cells

  • SSMO award clinical solid tumor oncology
    Abstract Award Winners: A. Papachristofilou
    Single-dose carboplatin and involved-node radiotherapy for seminoma stage IIA/B: long-term follow-up from the international multicenter phase II trial SAKK 01/10

  • Oncoreha/OPS/palliative.ch/SNIO/SOHC award for nursing, supportive & palliative care, rehabilitation & survivorship and integrative oncology
    Abstract Award Winner: M. Otth
    Young Survivors Registry – Prospective and Longitudinal Assessment of Health in Survivors of Childhood and Adolescent Cancer

SOHC Award Session

Chairs: Anne Angelillo-Scherrer (Bern), Stefan Greuter (Sargans), Miklos Pless (Winterthur)

Thursday, 20.11.2025 from 17h30 - 18h35, Boston 1-2

The following awards will be granted during the session:


Peter-Anton-und-Anna-Katharina-Miescher-Preis für Forschung in der Hämatologie 


Ellermann Prize 2025 - “Relève en hématologie”

  • Ellermann-Prize "Achievement Award"
    Prof. Thorsten Zenz, Zürich

  • Ellermann-Prize "Young Hematologists"
    Dr. Guido Ghilardi, Bellinzona

Jacques and Gloria Gossweiler Grants

Fellowship Award 2025

  • Emanuel Rom
    "Inflammasome Inhibition in Acute Myeloid Leukemia"
  • Annalse Jauch
    ”Advancing ITP Treatment: Exploring Eltrombopag and Immune Biomarkers for Personalized Therapy"

Research Grant 2025

  • Kristina Vrotniakaite-Bajerciene
    “Development of risk stratification scores for recurrent venous thromboembolism and treatment-related clinically relevant bleeding in patients with cancer-associated thrombosis. (CAN-CATCH study.)”
  • Davide Rossi
    “Analyzing the Effect of Non-Coding Mutations in the Regulatory Region of CD83 in Lymphomas"
  • Katarzyna Aleksandra Jalowiec
    "Taking a deeper look at PIEZO1 gene in RBCs and its clinical impact: PIEZO1 mutations in erythrocytosis and “Er” blood group antigens"