ISSLS Prize

In order to encourage lumbar spine research, DePuy Spine™ will sponsor three prizes of $11,000 US dollars each. Prizes will be awarded competitively on the basis of scientific merit in one or more of the following three areas:

Papers submitted for the contest must contain original material, not previously published or submitted for publication. A multiple authorship is acceptable. The manuscripts, in the English language, should be in the form of a complete report, including original illustrations (please note: marked with names); not exceeding 15 typewritten pages - references and tables can be added; double-spaced; typed text should not be smaller than Times 12 points; and in a form following the guidelines for online submission for the journal SPINE. Ethics committee approval is necessary for all animal studies as well as controlled clinical studies. One copy (with names and addresses) of each paper in full – plus an abstract, including illustrations – must be submitted to ISSLS - email to: Shirley.Fitzgerald@sunnybrook.ca

and one copy to SPINE – by the web through the editorial manager not later than October 15, 2007.

You will find “ISSLS Prize” under “Article Type” Accordingly, articles sent by fax will not be accepted.
Do not forget to give complete address with telephone number, fax number and e-mail address.
Winners will be informed in January, 2008.

One of the authors should be prepared, at his/her own expense, to come to Geneva, Switzerland,
May 25-31 at the time of “SPINE WEEK and the meeting of the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine, to present the paper and to receive the prize.

Submitting a paper for the ISSLS Prize is NOT an automatic entry to the abstracts for the upcoming ISSLS Annual Meeting. You must submit an abstract to ISSLS according to those requirements (see web site).

Please direct all correspondence to:

ISSLS Prize Committee
International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine
Sunnybrook and Women’s College Hospital, Room MG 323
2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Canada, M4N 3M5
Phone 416 – 480 – 4833
Email : Shirley.Fitzgerald@sunnybrook.ca

*Formerly The Volvo Award