We are delighted to announce the winners of the six Poster Prizes awarded at BSI Congress 2025 this year in recognition of outstanding poster presentations. This years prizes were awarded as follows:
FOCIS Poster Prize:
We would also like to thank the Federation of Clinical Immunological Societies (FOCIS) for kindly sponsoring one of our poster prizes. Together with FOCIS, we congratulate:
Ehsan Sedaghat-Rostami, The Pirbright Institute, UK
- Comparative pathogenesis and immune dynamics of porcine respiratory coronavirus and pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in a swine model (P.018)
Science Immunology Poster Prize:
Science Immunology have kindly sponsored one of our poster prizes. With them, we congratulate:
Spyridon Makris, University College London, UK
- Lymph node homeostasis is driven by lymphocyte number and maintained by robust tissue topology (P.180)
BSI journals sponsored Poster Prizes:
The BSI's official journals Clinical & Experimental Immunology, Immunotherapy Advances and Discovery Immunology were proud to sponsor four poster prizes. On behalf of all the editors, we extend our congratulations to the following winners:
Flavio Beke, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, UK
- L-type voltage-gated Ca2+ channels control T cell killing via non-canonical Hedgehog signalling (P.193)
Aisling Newing, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Fuelling mitochondrial metabolism boosts phagocytosis in ex vivo human monocytes (P.340)
Rébecca Barascud, INFINITy, France
- Prenatal maternal stress alters offspring CD4 T cell immunity through microbiota alteration (P.420)
Disease Models & Mechanisms Poster Prize
And finally we would like to thank Disease Models & Mechanisms for sponsoring this prize, and extend our congratulations to the winner:
Charlotte Simpson, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, UK
- LC2 promote pancreatic cancer by enforcing the co-localisation of Tregs and PD-1+TCF1+ CD8+ T cells in peri-tumour niches (P.569)
Congratulations to all of the winners and to everyone who presented their poster at Congress this year.