Bursaries
For the 37th ECP in Vienna, the ESP provides two different types of bursaries:
- Abstract-based bursaries to support the attendance of residents and trainees in pathology at the congress in Vienna
- Bursaries for pathologists from under-resourced countries
ESP is proud to announce that a total of 373 bursaries has been granted in both categories.
Congratulations to all bursary recipients! We look forward to seeing you in Vienna!
Recipients of abstract-based bursaries
| María Augusta Abad Vintimilla, Spain | Danijel Antonio Grubišić, Croatia | Patience Pepra-Ameyaw, Ghana |
| Maria Luisa Abascal Carnacho, Spain | Vincenzo Guastafierro, Italy | Eduardo Pereira, Portugal |
| Imola Adamik, Hungary | Caroline Guinard, Canada | Carolina Perez Duque, Portugal |
| Barbara Adjei- Mensah ,Ghana | Alina-Mihaela Gurău, Romania | Ana Isabel Pestana Lopes, Portugal |
| Patrycja Dagmara Adolewska, Spain | Sema Hacıoğlu Erşahan, Turkey | Ioana-Alexandra Petraru, Romania |
| Soyeb Aftab, India | Moez Hamdani, Tunisia | Djurdjina Petrovic, Serbia |
| Oumayma Ait Ouhssain, Morocco | Sergio Haro Yuste, Spain | Ivana Petrovic, Serbia |
| Ali Eren,Akın, Turkey | Laura Hato Salmón, Spain | Cecília Pinto, Portugal |
| Polina Aksenova, Russian Federation | Jorge Luis Hernandez Alfonso, Spain | Camelia Elena Plesa, Romania |
| Yusuf Aksoy, Turkey | Vanessa Hincapié Baena, Spain | Dragoș Gabriel Popa, Romania |
| Meriam Alaya,Tunisia | Luka Ilic, Serbia | Alina Ioana Popescu, Romania |
| Carmen Maria Alfonso Rosa, Spain | Hatice Feyza İnce, Turkey | Mădălina-Ștefania Preda, Romania |
| Pierre Allaume, France | Radu-George Ionescu, Romania | Mihai Alin Publik, Romania |
| João Carlos Almeida, Portugal | Barış IŞIK, Turkey | Sara Quinones, Spain |
| Dorra Aloui, Tunisia | Sarah Issa, The Netherlands | Georgian-Nicolae Radu, Romania |
| Anıl Alpsoy, Turkey | Stefan Ivić, Serbia | Vesela Rangacheva, Bulgaria |
| Carla Alves, Portugal | Anna Jakab, Hungary | Paula Rauseo-Aristigueta, Spain |
| Ana Alves, Portugal | Sirine Jedda, Tunisia | Caterina Ravaioli, Italy |
| João Luís Amaral, Portugal | Lisa Johnston, Scotland | Victoria Silvia Recalde, Argentina |
| Bogdan Anghel, Romania | Zeynep Ecem Kain, The Netherlands | Nic Gabriel Reitsam, Germany |
| Rania Aouadi, Tunisia | Berik Kaliullayev, Spain | Rosa Rendón, Spain |
| Inês Araújo, Portugal | Salma Kamoun, Tunisia | Inês Rodrigues, Portugal |
| Bruno Ardaya Lopez, Spain | Hilal Kandemir, Turkey | Pedro Rodrigues Veiga, Portugal |
| Nurşah Arı, Turkey | Sahar Kanoun, Tunisia | Carolina Rodríguez Gilabert, Spain |
| Marina Arias Duart, Spain | Kerem Karaca, Turkey | Diana Rus-Gonciar, Romania |
| Carmen Ariño-Palao, Spain | Zsófia Karancsi, Hungary | Maria Luísa Sacramento, Portugal |
| Alexandra Ariton, Romania | Oğuz Karatepe, Turkey | Zeynep Sagnak Yilmaz, Turkey |
| Antonia Armega-Anghelescu, Romania | Müzeyyen Keçik, Turkey | Aymen Sahli, Algeria |
| Rabia Reyhan Askin, Turkey | Borbála Edit Kézdy, Hungary | Safia Sakly, Tunisia |
| Rahma Ayadi, Tunisia | Adil Aziz Khan, India | Mónica Alexandra Salcedo Armijos, Spain |
| Goktug Aydogan, Turkey | Rhea Khazen, Lebanon | Ana Cláudia Santos, Portugal |
| Muhammed Ali Aydogdu, Turkey | Mustafa Hayri Kışlal, Turkey | João Santos, Portugal |
| Boglárka Bagoly, Hungary | Zeynep Koca, Turkey | Thiago Santos Vieira, Portugal |
| Erva Bengu Balaban Yilmaz, Turkey | Tugfan Kokturk, Turkey | Huriye İrem Saribiyik, Turkey |
| Teodora Ana Balan, Romania | Gülşah Kolak Gözüküçük, Turkey | Aslı Saruhan, Turkey |
| Jovana Baljak, Serbia | Nazlı Ecem Kore, Turkey | Esma Sayar, Turkey |
| Diana Baptista, Portugal | Fatma Korkmaz Aydın, Turkey | Seda Nur Sayır, Turkey |
| Beyza Nur Baysal, Turkey | Maria Magdalena Koteles, Romania | Nejra Selak, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Basak Bekiroglu Ozcan, Turkey | Adam Kowalewski, Poland | Marta Semko, Ukraine |
| Ons Belhadj, Tunisia | Diana Krepysheva, Italy | Beyza Betul Senay, Turkey |
| Oussama Belkacem, Tunisia | Anastasiya Kret, United Kingdom | Sophanith Seng, Cambodia |
| Ahmet Boduroglu, Turkey | Enes Furkan Kucuk, Turkey | Aysenur Sert, Turkey |
| Sophie Bond, United Kingdom | Gülnaz Kurt Çevik, Turkey | Simina-Petra Simion, Romania |
| Milana Bosanac, Serbia | João Lages dos Santos, Portugal | Mariana Simplício, Portugal |
| Kassiani Boulogeorgou, Greece | Salma Lamrabet, Morocco | Buse Nur Simsek, Turkey |
| Raphaël Bourgade, France | Alexandra Lapa, Portugal | Kübra Şimşek, Turkey |
| Diana Burlacu, Romania | Ma. Azalea Vargas Laqui, Philippines | Göksu Sivrikaya, Turkey |
| Melih Çağlayan, Turkey | Mónica Larrubia-Loring, Spain | Celeste So, Philippines |
| Yasemin Cakir, Turkey | Carolina Leal, Portugal | Filipe Soares Nogueira, Portugal |
| Andrea Canino, Italy | Živa Ledinek, Slovenia | Joana Sobreiro Silva, Portugal |
| Zeynep Cantürk, Turkey | Rok Lekše, Slovenia | Shivani Soni, Canada |
| Lina Cardisciani, Italy | Brazão Lopes, Portugal | Cristina-Alina Sora, Romania |
| Gonçalo Carrola, Portugal | Martina Luetić, Croatia | Rebecca Sparavelli, Italy |
| Michele Carroli, Italy | Bryan Luu, Canada | Catherine Stacey, Ireland |
| Mihai-Adrian Cerbu, Romania | Rodrigo Lyrio, Portugal | Jelena Stefanovic, Serbia |
| Ivana Čerkez, Bosnia and Herzegovina | Hijen Maaroufi, Tunisia | Liliia Sukharieva, Ukraine |
| Engin Ege Çetiner, Turkey | Víctor Macarrón, Spain | Antonia Syrnioti, Greece |
| Benallal Chafiaa, Morocco | Jesús Machuca-Aguado, Spain | Zsófia Eszter Széll, Hungary |
| Dorra CHIBA, France | Ambrus Mályi, Hungary | Mădălina-Gabriela Tanasă, Romania |
| Nuno Chiote, Portugal | Violeta Nicoleta Marin, Romania | Buket Timur, Turkey |
| Anastasia Cibotariu, Romania | Emil-Ionuț Marinescu, Romania | Meral Toker, Turkey |
| Emel Cingi Dogan, Turkey | Diana Maria Marinoiu, Romania | Anıl Toklu, Turkey |
| Teodora Elena Ciolan, Romania | Giulia Martinelli, Italy | Bogdan Toma, Romania |
| Fatih Çıtık, Turkey | Ana Mayer, Croatia | Christos Topalidis, Greece |
| Selin Çolak, Turkey | Karolina Mazurec, Poland | Elvira Tornay Mora, Spain |
| Andrei Coman, Romania | Damla Melemezoglu, Turkey | Paula Tornero-Piñero, Spain |
| Ivana Čović, Croatia | Maria Mexia Leitão, Portugal | Aishwarya Toshniwal, India |
| Elena-Diana Creta, Romania | Andjela Milićević, Serbia | Iuliana Traila, Romania |
| Krystal April Joy Curso, Philippines | Wafa Mokni, Tunisia | Toan Tran Trung, Vietnam |
| Andrei-Bogdan Cutitaru, Romania | Silvia Moles Caparros, Spain | Andrei-Valentin Tudorache, Romania |
| Filipa da Costa Jesus, Portugal | Andrea Molina-Alvarez, Spain | Selin Didar Turgut, Turkey |
| Asma Dahmane, Tunisia | Ana Maria Montana Ramirez, Spain | Havva Merve Turhan, Turkey |
| Ayse Nur Dalli Tunce, Turkey | Jessica Mooney, United Kingdom | Ayşe Türkmen Dedeoğlu, Turkey |
| Antonio d’Amati, Italy | Rodrigo Mora, Spain | Faik Tutucu, The Netherlands |
| Katarzyna Darecka, Spain | Margarida Moreira, Portugal | Salih Berk Uran, Turkey |
| Margherita D’Arezzo, Italy | Syrine Moussa, Tunisia | Melike Urgancı Gökpinar, Turkey |
| Mariana de Brito Pereira, Portugal | Berkay Mülayim, Turkey | Muserref Muge Ustaoglu, Turkey |
| Ayşenur Demirci, Turkey | Laurentiu Muresan, Romania | Ayşe Hümeyra Üstündağ, Turkey |
| Anastasiia Denysenko, Ukraine | Filip Muresan, Romania | Ceren Utku, Turkey |
| Yasmine Dhouibi, Tunisia | Daniela Nakuci, Italy | Huri Kübra Uzkuç, Turkey |
| Vivian Yoana Carolina Díaz Castro, Spain | Razvan Neagu, Romania | Asiye Üzümcü, Turkey |
| Janset Dogan, Turkey | Andreea-Adriana Neamtu, Romania | Daniel Uzunov, Bulgaria |
| Merve Dogan Ayan, Turkey | Sofia Neves, Portugal | Ariane Marielle Valle, Philippines |
| Camille Dovin, France | Diana-Georgiana Nicolcea, Romania | Aimée Jaycilaine Cicely van der Biezen, Spain |
| Klara Dovžan, Slovenia | Alexandra-Iulia Nitu, Romania | František Váňa, Czech Republic |
| Luana-Francisca Dragostin, Romania | Guilherme Nogueira Fontinha, Portugal | Annelore Vandendriessche, Belgium |
| Tatiana S. Driva, Greece | Laura Nonnis, Italy | Alin-Marian Vasile, Romania |
| Georgiana Amelia Dumbrava, Romania | Imen Noomen, Tunisia | Alejandra Sofia Veliz Dominguez, Spain |
| Sule Kevser Dursun, Turkey | Joneyd Noury Rad Davaji, Turkey | Sara-Alexandra Vese, Romania |
| Zineb El euch, Tunisia | Asli Noyan, Turkey | Natalia Vicente, Spain |
| Omar El Mnif, Tunisia | Sandrine Nugteren, The Netherlands | Adelina Vidac, Romania |
| Halima Elkhadraoui, Morocco | Hyunseung Oh, South Korea | Coca-Mihaela Vieru, Spain |
| Merve Emin, Turkey | Ricard Onieva, Spain | Iakovos Vlachos, Greece |
| Senay Erdogan Durmus, Turkey | Arnold Orosz, Romania | Aleksandra Walczak, Poland |
| Ozgur Can Eren, Turkey | Nikoletta-Szandra Orosz-Bogya, Romania | Chathurika Wijegunarathna, Sri Lanka |
| Gabrijela Erić, Bosnia and Herzegovina | Agnese Orsatti, Italy | Rana Yaakoubi, Tunisia |
| Adina Miriam Fifiita, Romania | Ertuğrul Över, Turkey | Rahma Yaiche, Tunisia |
| Gizem FİKİR, Turkey | Mustafa Öz, Turkey | Hatice Yavaş, Turkey |
| Gréta Galambosi, Ireland | Mehmet Ozcan, Turkey | Ilayda Yıldız, Turkey |
| Huáscar Galindo-Guzmán, Spain | Sevdenur Özdüzgün Polat, Turkey | Mehmet Can Yıldız, Turkey |
| Aleksandra Gerdzhikova, Bulgaria | Goktug Ozkaya, Turkey | Kerem Yilmaz, Turkey |
| Razvan Gheorghe-Giurca, Romania | Elif Ozsagir, Turkey | Saltuk Bugra Yolburun, Turkey |
| Sebnem Girgin Sargaço, Portugal | Gülce Öztürk, Turkey | Diana Zamosteanu, Romania |
| Pierre Goineau, France | Zsófia Pálinkás, Hungary | Magdalena Zbronska, Portugal |
| Simay Gonca Keskin, Turkey | Veronica Pascu, Romania | Alexandra Zeca, Romania |
| Chrysoula Gouta, Greece | Bogdan Pastor, Romania | Mouna Zghal, Tunisia |
| Ana Gradil, Portugal | José Nuno Peixoto, Portugal | Allen Zhang, Canada |
| Yael-Carleen Zosmer, Romania |
Recipients of bursaries for pathologists from under-resourced countries
| Subasri Armon, Malaysia | Hazal İzol Özmen, Turkey | Louis Olivier Moscoso Miranda, Ecuador |
| Havva Berber, Turkey | Saira Javeed, Pakistan | Roman Moskalenko, Ukraine |
| Martina Bosic, Serbia | Ljubisa Jovanovic, Serbia | Osman Furkan Mülkem, Turkey |
| Dumitru Brinza, Moldova | Antonina Kalmykova, Ukraine | Mykhailo Myroshnychenko, Ukraine |
| Kübra Bulut, Turkey | Berna Karabulut, Turkey | Gorana Nikolic, Serbia |
| Lucas Campos Chagas, Brazil | Moshawa Khaba, South Africa | Željka Panić, Serbia |
| Blerina Cela, Albania | Bilge Konuk Demiröz, Turkey | Arjeta Podrimaj Bytyqi, Kosovo |
| Balça Begüm Cengiz, Turkey | Vladyslav Kropelnytskyi, Ukraine | Milan Popović, Serbia |
| Kutsal Doğan, Turkey | Yuliia Kuzyk, Ukraine | Meenakshi Rao, India |
| Olena Dyadyk, Ukraine | Thiyaphat Laohawetwanit, Thailand | Nesrin Reisli Attar, Turkey |
| Ekren Erhan, Turkey | Hanna Lapsar, Ukraine | Ana Ristic Petrovic, Serbia |
| Claudia Andrea Gomez Gonzalez, Turkey | Fanny Kamarudy Lay, Indonesia | Onur Sahin, Turkey |
| Lutfiye Dilsad Gulkanat, Turkey | Blagjica Lazarova, Republic of North Macedonia | Labinot Shahini, Kosovo |
| Gozde Gungor Sahin, Turkey | Jenny Tung Hiong Lee, Malaysia | Viktoria Shonia, Georgia |
| Irem Guvendir Bakkaloglu, Turkey | Rine Limani, Kosovo | Vladan Trivunović, Serbia |
| Eman Hijazi, Jordan | Sadushe Loxha, Kosovo | Nevena Stanulović, Serbia |
| Jelena Ilić Sabo, Serbia | Milica Mitić, Serbia | Zhanat Zhalimbetova, Kazakhstan |
| Leyla Isayeva, Azerbaijan | Marrakchi Mohamed Lamine, Algeria | Maja Zivotic, Serbia |
What is included in a bursary?
- Bursaries include a free registration to the congress as well as a monetary grant.
Important information for bursary applicants
- Please note that abstracts can only be presented (and thus published) on-site, not virtually! Please ensure that you are able to travel to Vienna when submitting an abstract.
- Please note that only complete applications will be considered for a bursary. Bursary applications submitted well before the deadline (2 April 2025) will be checked and followed up on if documentation is not complete. Bursary applications submitted right by the deadline cannot be followed up on – only the documentation submitted by the deadline will be considered.
- Please do not submit your abstract twice (as a “normal” abstract submission AND a bursary application).
- Applications will be evaluated by a ‘bursaries’ committee’ to ensure fairness. The results will be sent to all applicants by e-mail.
- Kindly note, that applicants may be granted a maximum of five bursaries over the years. In case you have already received five bursaries in previous ECPs, please refrain from applying again since you are not eligible to benefit from further bursaries.
You can only apply for ONE OR THE OTHER bursary category. Please refrain from submitting your application in both categories.
Should you fulfill the requirements for both bursary types, we highly recommend submitting an abstract-based bursary application.
Abstract-based bursaries | Requirements (mandatory)
Your application can only be considered if all of the following requirements are met:
- Active ESP membership at the time of application
- Submission of an abstract
- Submission of a brief Curriculum Vitae
- Supporting letter (official letter by your head of department/institute incl. signature to let the committee know, why you should be granted a bursary)
- Proof of trainee/resident status (on official letter head paper, including start and end date of your residency / training programme; must be issued in the year of the respective congress, signed by your head of department/institute)
- Copy of passport/ID (applicants must be under 45; i.e. born after 6 September 1980)
Submission is closed.
Bursaries for pathologists from under-resourced countries | Requirements (mandatory)
Your application can only be considered if all of the following requirements are met:
- You have been an active member of ESP for (at least) three consecutive years (2023, 2024, 2025).*
- You reside in one of the countries included on the respective list.
*Becoming a member retrospectively does not qualify for a bursary.
Please note that the fulfillment of all listed prerequisites does not automatically guarantee a bursary.
Registration for abstract submitters/bursary applicants
- For the 37th ECP it is not necessary to register before submitting your abstract.
- However, registration and payment will be mandatory for authors of accepted abstracts by 26 June 2025 to get their abstract(s) published in Virchows Archiv.
- Please note: ESP members with active membership can login with their ESP membership account credentials to register for the congress. Non-members will need to create a (registration) account (not identical with the abstract submission account).
- When submitting an abstract or a bursary application, please make sure to use the same e-mail address as for your ECP registration.
- Failing to use matching e-mail addresses might result in your abstract not being published.
Abstract authors may register at the early registration fee by 2 April 2025. If no registration has been submitted by that date, the early registration fee will be made available again (this also applies to bursary applicants who are not awarded a bursary) once abstract notifications have been sent out, up until 26 June 2025.
