Published on: 03-02-2022

At the TIAFT Virtual business meeting on 3 February, the winners of the TIAFT awards were announced. We are happy to congratulate the well-deserved winners!

Alan Curry Award
Lifetime contribution to analytical and forensic toxicology

Barry Logan, USA

 

TIAFT Achievement Award
Scientific track record of a TIAFT member under 46 years of age

José Luiz Costa, Brazil

 

Young Scientists Best Oral Award
Best oral presentation at the annual meeting by a Young Scientist (not older than 40 years of age)

2020 - Stefania Oliverio, Luxembourg - Total Blood Carbon Monoxide (TBCO) as alternative biomarker for CO poisoning diagnosis: application in clinical and forensic settings

2021 - Liesl Janssens, Belgium - Sensing HIF stabilization: a proactive effort to screen for performance enhancing HIF stabilizers based on their activity

 

Young Scientists Best Poster Award
Best poster presentation at the annual meeting by a Young Scientist (not older than 40 years of age)

2020 - Olwen Groth, Germany - Entomotoxicity: Unexpected findings of new psychoactive substances in larvae

2021 - Maarten Quireynsa, Belgium - Temporal monitoring of stimulants during the first COVID-19 wave in Belgium from a wastewater-based epidemiologic perspective

 

Young Scientists Best Paper Award
Best paper authored by a Young Scientist (not older than 40 years of age)

2020 - Tanja Gampfer, Germany - Cytotoxicity, metabolism, and isozyme mapping of the synthetic cannabinoids JWH-200, A-796260, and 5F-EMB-PINACA studied by means of in vitro systems, Archives of Toxicology

2021 - Lana Brockbals, Switzerland - Postmortem Metabolomics: Strategies to Assess Time-Dependent Postmortem Changes of Diazepam, Nordiazepam, Morphine, Codeine, Mirtazapine and Citalopram, Metabolites

 

TIAFT Bulletin Award
Best article published in the TIAFT Bulletin

2020 - Henrik Druid, Sweden - Forensic Casework and life in general in the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 - Erin Karschner, USA - Delta Dawn: The rise of Δ-8-THC in the United States