created in honor of Hironobu Oonishi

This award is established to encourage and stimulate the research contributions to the knowledge in the field of bioceramics through basic, experimental and/or clinical research by young scientists. It will be presented annually during the BIOCERAMICS meeting, and consists of a certificate, a plaque, a refund of the registration fee and travelling expenses to the conference by the Organizing Committee of the meeting.

• The nominee must be a student, PhD or postdoc (letter from supervisor is required) from academic or research centres, not be older than 35 years, and have an accepted abstract at the BIOCERAMICS meeting as presenting author.
• The nominee must be a member of the ISCM in good standing