The Austrian Vascular Biology Organization will donate a prize (500€) to the best publication in the field of Vascular Biology in 2022 from an Austrian group, i.e., the address of the corresponding author needs to be in Austria. Publications that were previously awarded with a publication prize are not eligible. The awardee commits to not submit the publication to other awards. The prize goes to the first author of the publication, it can be shared in case of joint first authorship. The publication will be selected by a panel of reviewers of AVBO members. The recipient agrees to give an oral presentation of his/her work at the Cardiovascular Research Cluster Meeting on Nov. 22nd 2023.
Please send your application, including name, affiliation and a pdf-file of the publication to office@avbo.at, quoting “AVBO-prize”. The deadline is on Nov. 3rd, 2023.

Honored publication 2021
Tsiantoulas, D., Eslami, M., Obermayer, G. et al. APRIL limits atherosclerosis by binding to heparan sulfate proteoglycans. Nature 597, 92–96 (2021). doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03818-3