ANZSBT Awards and Grants

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ANZSBT Presidential Symposium Award

This prestigious award is to recognise the best oral presentation delivered during the Presidential Symposium held at the Blood 2026 Conference as decided by the ANZSBT Council. The Council will initially select abstracts for the Presidential Symposium. The award (with a prize of $750) will be judged on quality and originality of the work and presentation. This award is open to ANZSBT members and non-ANZSBT members. The prize will also include a 1 year complimentary membership of the ANZSBT if the winner is not an ANZSBT member.

ANZSBT Member's Award

In the event that the Presidential Award is won by a non-member, ANZSBT will also award a Member's Award recognising the highest contribution via an abstract or presentation from a Member (with a prize of $500). This award will be decided by the ANZSBT Council.

ANZSBT Young Investigator Award

This award (kindly sponsored by the National Blood Authority) is to recognise the best oral or poster presentation presented during the Blood 2026 Conference in the ANZSBT stream. The award (with a prize of $1,000) will be judged by the ANZSBT Council on the quality and originality of the work and presentation.

To be eligible you must be 35 years or less on the last day of the meeting. For abstracts submitted by more than one author/group, you have to have been the primary researcher/author and the Young Investigator must attend the Conference to present the abstract. This award is open to ANZSBT members and non-ANZSBT members.

Best Oral or Poster Presentation demonstrating improvements within a Blood Bank laboratory: Australia and NZ

This award (kindly sponsored by ParagonCare- Immulab) is for the best poster or oral presentation that demonstrates improvements within a Blood Bank laboratory setting with respect to:

- Best practice/quality/improved standards
- Development of protocols in pre-transfusion and/or antenatal testing
- Collaboration with the Clinicians/Physicians to the benefit of patient outcomes and/or provision of safe and appropriate blood and blood products
- Haemovigilance practices

The prize of $500 will be awarded to a Blood Service laboratory scientist, hospital transfusion laboratory scientist or private pathology blood bank laboratory scientist in a Blood Bank Pathology laboratory. This award is open to ANZSBT members and non-ANZSBT members who work in Australia or NZ.

ANZSBT Best Poster Prize

The ANZSBT Council will award a prize of $250 for the best ANZSBT poster judged on quality and orginality of the work and presentation. This award is open to ANZSBT members and non-ANZSBT members.

ANZSBT Travel Grants

Three ANZSBT Travel Grants for up to $3,000 will be available, covering one each of Clinical, Scientific, and Transfusion Nurses groups.

Applicants must be current financial members of ANZSBT, and apply via ANZSBT (application link coming soon). Abstract submission is not a pre-requisite.

The ANZSBT Council will decide on the grant awardees approximately mid-May. Grants will be aimed at members who do not normally have access to significant funding to attend.