Bursaries
Bursary applications can be submitted starting January 2026.
Bursary submission is now closed. Results will be communicated in early June 2026.
Congress Bursaries
For the 38th ECP in Stockholm, 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 Stockholm
- Bursaries for pathologists from under-resourced countries
What is included in a bursary?
- Bursaries include a free registration to the congress as well as a monetary grant.
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 Stockholm!
Recipients of abstract-based bursaries
| María Augusta Abad Vintimilla, Spain | İlyas Erken, Turkey | Nga Nguyen, France |
| Dilshani kaushalya Abeygunawardhana, Sri Lanka | Burçin Ersoy Coşkun, Turkey | Pichponreingsey Nhek, Cambodia |
| Joop Aendekerk, Netherlands | Virginia Fernandez, USA | Diana Nicolcea, Romania |
| Bianka Agaraj, Albania | Connie Fierro, Canada | João Nogueira, Portugal |
| Agostina Florencia Agüero, Spain | Adina Miriam Fifiiță, Romania | Imen Noomen, Tunisia |
| Hayreddin Aknar, Turkey | Gizem FİKİR, Turkey | Joneyd Noury Rad Davaji, Turkey |
| Reha Akpinar, Italy | Allan Fong, Canada | Ivan Novak, Croatia |
| Berk Kaan Aktas, USA | Maira Alejandra Forero Rivera, Colombia | Asli Noyan, Turkey |
| Rabia Aktemur, Turkey | Huáscar Galindo-Guzmán, Spain | Sema Ocak, Turkey |
| Ahmet Ramazan Akur, Turkey | Jose Antonio Galvez, Spain | Grainne Okeeffe, Ireland |
| Seda Alabaş, Turkey | Luciano Leandro García Fernández, Spain | Ina Onea, Romania |
| Carmen Maria Alfonso Rosa, Spain | Nikola Gardić, Serbia | Mehmet Ozcan, Turkey |
| Defne Alkışlar, Turkey | Beatrice Gatti, Italy | Oğuz Özdemir, Turkey |
| Anil Alpsoy, Turkey | Aylin Gemici, Turkey | Eylül Özkan, Turkey |
| Deema ALshaar, Syrian | Mariam Gendzekhadze, Georgia | Ágnes Paál, Hungary |
| João Amaral, Portugal | Naz Geyikçi, Turkey | Alessia Papapietro, Italy |
| Uncu Ana, Romania | Claudia Gonzalez Reinoso, USA | Veronica Pascu, Romania |
| Jeronimo Andrade Restrepo, Spain | María González-Suárez, Spain | Ieva Paškevičiūtė, Lithuania |
| Tudorache Andrei-Valentin, Romania | Teodora Goroneanu, Romania | Bogdan Pastor, Romania |
| Sofia-Anastasia Androniadou, Greece | Alexandra Gráczer, Hungary | Klara Pavlić, Croatia |
| Gael Angeles, Spain | Ana-Maria Gradinaru, Romania | Georgios Pazarlis, Greece |
| Tamara Angelovska, North Macedonia | Rares Grigore, Romania | Eva Manuela Pena Burgos, Spain |
| Juraj Anicic, Croatia | Marco Grillini, Italy | Felipe Pereira, Brazil |
| Ana Rita Araujo, Portugal | Alberto Grimaldi, Brazil | Carolina Perez Duque, Portugal |
| Inês Araújo, Portugal | Vildan Güçlü, Turkey | Carla Antonia Peterdeak, Romania |
| Marina Arias Duart, Spain | Clovis Guillois, France | Đurđina Petrović, Serbia |
| Esma Nur Arıbalı, Turkey | Emirhan Gül, Turkey | Nicholas Phillipow, Canada |
| İrem Arslan, Turkey | Elif Güler, Turkey | João Miguel Pimentel, Portugal |
| Sevgi Deren Arslan, Turkey | Ragde Gunduzoz, Turkey | Cecília Pinto, Portugal |
| Melis Artukoglu, Turkey | Alina-Mihaela Gurau, Romania | Matteo Piras, Italy |
| Rabia Reyhan Askin, Turkey | Gökhan Hatipoğlu, Turkey | Ana Maria Plamadă, Romania |
| Deniz Aslan, Turkey | Tim Cornelius Johannes Herkens, Germany | Esra Polat Yapıcı, Turkey |
| Cem Etken Atabay, Turkey | Vanessa Hincapié Baena, Spain | Dragos-Gabriel Popa, Romania |
| Irem Atik, Turkey | Sapir Hochman, Spain | Elena-Beatrice Popa, Romania |
| Rahma Ayadi, Tunisia | Dunja Holcinger, Croatia | Andreea Iuliana Praf, Romania |
| Tugce Aydemir, Turkey | Suraiya Zara Hossain-Ibrahim, United Kingdom | Sara Quinones, Spain |
| Meryem Aydın, Turkey | Guiselle Tatiana Huetio Vergara, Spain | Georgian Radu, Romania |
| Zeliha deniz Ayhan, Turkey | Hatice Feyza İnce, Turkey | Rumana Rafiq, Canada |
| Zaineb Ayoubi, Morocco | Hatice İpek İnci Şayir, Turkey | Anfal Rahmani, Algeria |
| Tula Dariela Ayquipa Arróspide, Spain | Petraru Ioana-Alexandra, Romania | Letícia Ramos Silveira Landim, Brazil |
| Erva Bengu Balaban Yilmaz, Turkey | Morariu Irina, Romania | Vesela Rangacheva, Bulgaria |
| Teodora Ana Balan, Romania | Ingrid-Iuliana Isari, Romania | Paula Ysabella Rauseo aristigueta, Spain |
| Maria Baldea, Romania | Leyla Isayeva, Azerbaijan | Caterina Ravaioli, Italy |
| Evgenija Baneva, North Macedonia | Feyza Isik Taytas, Turkey | Nic Reitsam, Germany |
| Daniela Baracaldo, Spain | Sanja Ivkovska, North Macedonia | Lukas Rentschler, Germany |
| Deniz Pınar Baran, Turkey | Anna Jakab, Hungary | Viktorija Ristovska Aleksov, North Macedonia |
| Melania Barbagallo, Italy | Filipa Jesus, Portugal | Jéromine Roberge, France |
| Didina-Catalina Barbalata, Romania | Claudia Júdez Tortosa, Spain | Inês Rodrigues, Portugal |
| Zeynep Bayramoglu, Turkey | Michelle Jordana Jurado Rivera, Spain | Aleksandra Rogozhina, Russian Federation |
| Beyza Nur Baysal, Turkey | Zeynep Ecem Kain, Netherlands | Lucas Ignacio Rollán López, Spain |
| Mohamed Kamel Bchir, Tunisia | Berik Kaliullayev, Spain | Ștefan Roșca, Romania |
| Malek Fatima Zohra Behnas, France | Hilal Kandemir, Turkey | Angie Lucia Rozo Cruz, Colombia |
| Adrian Bejenariu, Romania | Nazile Kaplan, Turkey | Maria Rusz, Romania |
| Viktoria Madelaine Beltran, Philippines | Kerem Karaca, Turkey | Maria Luísa Sacramento, Portugal |
| Selma Ben yahia, Tunisia | Melike Karakus Yılmaz, Turkey | Rumeysa Sahin, Turkey |
| María Benito Serrano, Spain | Ani Anastasia Karali, Greece | Monica Alexandra Salcedo Armijos, Spain |
| Djouhaina Saadia Bensalem, Algeria | Hazal Eylül Kaya, Turkey | Inês Sanches Pereira, Portugal |
| Monica Bernasconi, Italy | Cansu Kayar, Turkey | Sebnem Sargaco, Portugal |
| Jeanne Beton, France | Müzeyyen Keçik, Turkey | Huriye İrem Sarıbıyık, Turkey |
| Ana-Maria Blajovan, Romania | Nina Keršnik, Slovenia | Nataliia Savchenko, Ukraine |
| Elena Marilena Boboc, Romania | Lina Khalfallah, Tunisia | Esma Sayar, Turkey |
| Alessandra Borriello, Italy | Adil Aziz Khan, United Kingdom | Hatice Ceren Sayar, Turkey |
| Imen Boubaker, Tunisia | Nur Kıvrak, Turkey | Seda Nur SAYIR, Turkey |
| Kassiani Boulogeorgou, Greece | Zeynep Koca, Turkey | Enes Selki, Turkey |
| Mariana Brito, Portugal | Berker Alkın Koçak, Turkey | Mark Sementsov, Germany |
| Martina Britvar, Croatia | Tuğfan Köktürk, Turkey | Beyza Betul Senay, Turkey |
| Alexandru-Nicolae Brujan, Romania | Nives Kolesarić, Croatia | Senem Şengül Öztürk, Turkey |
| Nazlı Bulut, Turkey | Michaela Kopalová, Czech Republic | Oleksandr Shmorhun, Spain |
| Andreea Bumbu, Romania | Nazli Ecem Kore, Turkey | Zakhar Shtanev, Russian Federation |
| Nadica Buneska, North Macedonia | Panagiotis Kousidis, Greece | Joana Silva, Portugal |
| Elena-Stefana Burlacu, Romania | Linda Krijgsman, Netherlands | Maria Inês Silva Megre Barbosa, Portugal |
| Bruno Caglioti, Italy | Enes Furkan Kucuk, Turkey | Simina-Petra Simion, Romania |
| Sadiye sena Cam, Turkey | Esra Küçükelçi, Turkey | Karol Simon, Hungary |
| Azizhan Camadan, Turkey | Merve Küçükyeşil, Turkey | Petr Slavík, Czech Republic |
| Idalid Camara Ramales, Spain | Nikolina Kurtovic, Croatia | Ezginur Solar, Turkey |
| Gözde Canbolat Danacı, Turkey | Ahmet Erdem Kürüm, Turkey | Shivani Soni, Canada |
| Andrea Canino, Italy | Etkin Bengisu Kutsal, Turkey | Cristina-Alina Sora, Romania |
| Marcos José Carrillo Pohl, Spain | João Lages dos Santos, Portugal | Vinícius Souza, Brazil |
| Gonçalo Carrola, Portugal | Guillermo Lara Medina, Spain | Stefan Spirić, Serbia |
| Maria Inês Carvalhinho, Portugal | Bianca Andreea Lazar, Romania | Laura Elena Stanciu, Romania |
| Ana Casas Miras, Spain | Ionela Roxana Leațu, Romania | Mauricio Suárez Franck, Spain |
| Sara Castro Pinto, Portugal | Arina Leiman, Russian Federation | Paul Szeica, Romania |
| Rodrigo Cavalcanti, Portugal | Gabriel Hector Lopez Arze, Spain | Mădălina-Gabriela Tanasă, Romania |
| Alessandra Celi, Italy | Hijen Maaroufi, Tunisia | Vlad-George Tanase, Romania |
| Özge Gökçen Çelik, Turkey | Patricia Madriñán-Borras, Spain | Cansu Taşpınar, Turkey |
| Elif Verda Çeliker Koç, Turkey | Martin Manole, Romania | Andrada-Claudia Tătar, Romania |
| Ivana Čerkez, Bosnia and Herzegovina | Busra Mantar, Turkey | Anıl Toklu, Turkey |
| Paula Michelle Chica Barrera, Spain | Diana Maria Marinoiu, Romania | Isabela Töltési, Czech Republic |
| Elena-Andreea Chirvasuta, Romania | Marvin Masalunga, Philippines | Christos Topalidis, Greece |
| Sorin Chius, Romania | Maria-Alexandra Matanie, France | Elvira Tornay mora, Spain |
| Anastasia Cibotariu, Romania | Nur Kubra Mataracı, Turkey | Paula Tornero Piñero, Spain |
| Emel Cingi Doğan, Turkey | Cezar-Andrei Matasariu, Romania | Stavros Tsiopoulos, Greece |
| Teodora Elena Ciolan, Romania | Rania Mathlouthi, Tunisia | Zeynep Türkmen Usta, Turkey |
| Fatih Çıtık, Turkey | İrem Memiş Yaşar, Turkey | İzzetcan Ulusoy, Turkey |
| Selin Colak, Turkey | Réka Mészáros, Hungary | Salih berk Uran, Turkey |
| Diego Colunge, USA | Maria Mexia Leitão, Portugal | Asiye Üzümcü, Turkey |
| Andrei Coman, Romania | Nadezhda Mikhaskova, Russian Federation | Daniel Uzunov, Bulgaria |
| Giulia Corso, Italy | Andjela Milicevic, Serbia | Eduardo Valente Pereira, Portugal |
| Esma Coskun Turan, Turkey | Zorana Milinković, Serbia | Sílvia Valls Losada, Spain |
| Ivana Čović, Croatia | Danijel Milivojević, Serbia | Alin-Marian Vasile, Romania |
| Pilar Cuesta Cabot, Spain | İlay Mırık Yaprakcı, Turkey | Barbora Vášová, Czech Republic |
| Alyne Cunha, Brazil | Daiana-Alina Mirnea, Romania | Pedro Veiga, Portugal |
| Katarzyna Darecka, Spain | Anna Miroshnichenko, Kazakhstan | Rita Vesce, Germany |
| Margherita D’Arezzo, Italy | Matěj Míšek, Czech Republic | Thiago Vieira, Portugal |
| Maria João De Gusman Geraldes Correia Coelho, Portugal | Srđan Mitrović, Bosnia and Herzegovina | Vittorio Maria Virgone, Italy |
| Camila De la Maza Pérez, Spain | Raluca Mocanu, Romania | Sara Vitória Sousa Sampaio, Brazil |
| Patricie Delongova, Czech Republic | Silvia Moles, Spain | Iakovos Vlachos, Greece |
| Anastasiia Denysenko, Ukraine | Yesid Molina Correa, Spain | Teodora-Cristina Voinia, Romania |
| Iosep Diana Gabriela, Romania | Ana Maria Montaña Ramirez, Spain | Mariia Vorobeva, Russian Federation |
| Vivian Yoana Carolina Diaz Castro, Spain | Eduarda Monteiro, Portugal | Dmytro Voronin, Ukraine |
| Janset Doğan, Turkey | Rodrigo Mora Diaz, Spain | Aleksandra Walczak, Poland |
| Ecem Dokuzlu Küçük, Turkey | Jonathan André Mora Quimbayo, Colombia | Aslihan Yavas, Germany |
| Luana-Francisca Dragostin, Romania | Margarida Moreira, Portugal | Ayşenur Yavuz, Turkey |
| Ezgi Duman Kurt, Turkey | Leya Motala, Ireland | Cemre Yıldırım, Turkey |
| Arda Deniz Durmuş, Turkey | Syrine Moussa, Tunisia | Ilayda Yıldız, Turkey |
| İnanç Duymaz, Turkey | Berkay Mülayim, Turkey | Mehmet Can Yıldız, Turkey |
| Gözde Efil, Turkey | Juan Muñoz Hurtado, Spain | Onur Yilmaz, Turkey |
| Zineb El Euch, Tunisia | Laurentiu Muresan, Romania | Ece Yılmaz Eşsiz, Turkey |
| Nariméne Elias El Hannani, Algeria | Filip Mureșan, Romania | Levente Zarándy, Hungary |
| Khalid Elmorabit, Morocco | Louise Murray, Ireland | Ahmadreza Zarifian Ghazikheir, United Kingdom |
| MERVE EMIN, Turkey | Absalom Mwazha, South Africa | Magdalena Zbronska, Portugal |
| Maren Engeler, Germany | Rǎzvan Neagu, Romania | Alexandra Zeca, Romania |
| Merve Erakın, Turkey | Stefan Nemtanu, Romania | Dina Zhumakhanova, Kazakhstan |
| Ege Erdener, Turkey | Sofia Neves, Portugal | |
| Mehmet Oguz Erguvan, Turkey | Thi Nhung Nguyen, Japan |
Recipients of bursaries for pathologists from under-resourced countries
| Merve Aksin, Turkiye | Claudia Andrea Gomez Gonzalez, Turkey | Ahmed Montasser, Egypt |
| Dorra Aloui, Tusinia | Nelli Grigoryan, Armenia | Roman Moskalenko, Ukraine |
| Goktug Aydogan, Turkey | Tamar Guchashvili, Georgia | Lusine Nazanyan, Armenia |
| Gokce Hande Benli, Turkey | Merita Hashani Bacaj, Kosovo | Ayse Aysim Ozagari, Turkey |
| Shreekant Bharti, India | Manana Jikurashvili, Georgia | Marina Perić, Serbia |
| Hülya Bilgi, Turkey | Antonina Kalmykova, Ukraine | Arjeta Podrimaj Bytyqi, Kosova |
| Nina Bondarenko, Ukraine | Berna Karabulut, Turkey | Onur Sahin, Turkey |
| Olexandr Bondarenko, Ukraine | Shabnam Karangadan, India | Elvira Satbayeva, Kazakhstan |
| Elif Kardelen Çağdaş, Turkey | Seçil Kılar Kösemen, Turkey | Labinot Shahini , Kosovo |
| Jonathan Emmanuel Cancio, Philippines | Vladyslav Kropelnytskyi, Ukraine | Anila Sharma, India |
| Abir Chaabane, Morocco | Yuliia Kuzyk, Ukraine | Gyanendra Singh, India |
| Slim Charfi, Tunisia | Bhagat Singh Lali, India | Cansu Sönmez, Turkey |
| Lamia Charfi, Tunisia | Thiyaphat Laohawetwanit, Thailand | Sithapong Soontornsit, Thailand |
| Lucas De Figueiredo Barbosa, Brazil | Hanna Lapsar, Ukraine | Aleksandra Stanojević, Serbia |
| Vasiona Dermaku, Kosovo | Roman Laskorunskyi, Ukraine | Elena Stojkoska, North Macedonia |
| Sanja Despotovic, Serbia | Rinë Limani, Kosovo | Ana Marija Tomic, Serbia |
| Raoudha Doghri, Tunisia | Alena Lisneuskaya, Belarus | Havva Serap Toru, Turkey |
| Maha Driss, Tunisia | Sadushe Loxha, Kosovo | Dalma Udovicic-Gagula, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| A. Humeyra Dur Karasayar, Turkey | Mohamed lamine Marrakchi, Algeria | Meral Üner, Turkey |
| Pauline Mae Dy, Philippines | Dejan Miljković, Serbia | Shonia Viktoria, Georgia |
| Halima E L Khadraoui, Morocco | Milica Mitić, Serbia | Zhanat Zhalimbetova, Kazakhstan |
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 Stockholm when submitting an abstract.
- Please note that only complete applications will be considered for a bursary. Bursary applications submitted well before the deadline (8 April 2026) 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 on official letter head paper 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 16 September 1980)
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 (2024, 2025, 2026).*
- 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
- If you are an abstract submitter/bursary applicant, you will be able to register once your submission results are released in early June. At that time, the early registration rate – or complimentary registration for bursary recipients – will be correctly applied.
- Registration is not required at the time of abstract submission, but will become mandatory after acceptance of an abstract and needs to be completed by 25 June 2026 in order for the abstract(s) to be 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.
- When registering, please make sure to use the same e-mail address as for your abstract submission or bursary application.
- Using different e-mail addresses might result in your abstract not being published.