The Annual Meeting, held jointly with the Swiss Society for Behavioural Neurology last January in Lausanne, attracted a record number of participants and poster presen-tations. The local organizers have to be praised for the quality of the program, especially the choice of plenary lectures, and for the perfect organization of the meeting. The venue of the Annual Meeting at the University Hospital is symbolic of our efforts to set bridges between clinical and basic research.
SSN Awards Among the highlights of the Meeting was the awards ceremony for the Best Clinical Presentation and for the 2003 Best Publication. The recognition and promotion of the work by student-members and junior scientists is one of the major goals of the SSN. The 2003 Best Publication Award, selected among 19 applications, was won by Anna Ferri (Division of Pharmacology, University of Geneva) for her article published in Current Biology (Vol. 13, pp. 669-673). The Award for the Best Clinical Presentation was given to Jair Stern and co-authors (Dept. of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Zurich). The Volker-Henn Best Poster Award was won by Graham Knott (Institute of Cell Biology and Morphology, University of Lausanne), Dimitris Bourikas (Institute of Zoology, University of Zurich), and Manuel Mercier (Laboratory of Functional Imaging, University Hospital, Geneva).
