We are delighted to announce Parasitology's joint prize winners for the 2024 Early Career Researcher Award (for papers published in the journal in 2023). Only researchers who are no more than 7 years post award of their PhD were eligible to receive the award. Decisions on the winning papers were made by Russell Stothard and his team of supporting Editors. The winning papers are freely available.

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Parasitology's Early Career Research Award 2024 Winners:

Nicholas P. Bailey has been awarded the Early Career Researcher Prize for submitting the paper entitled:

Revisiting fecal metatranscriptomics analyses of macaques with idiopathic chronic diarrhoea with a focus on trichomonad parasites

Naima C. Starkloff has been awarded the Early Career Researcher Prize for submitting the paper entitled:

Coinfection rates of avian blood parasites increase with latitude in parapatric host species

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Each year Parasitology awards an annual prize of £1,000 for the best paper by an early career researcher published in an issue of the journal during the previous year. 

Those eligible to apply for this award will be the first, last or corresponding authors of papers published in a Parasitology issue in 2023. Applicants must be no more than seven years post award of their PhD.

If you are eligible and would like to be considered for this year’s award, please email Harry Busby with the following information by Friday 1^st March.

• Your full name and the year of award of your PhD.
• The title of your article published in Parasitology in 2023.
• A few sentences summarising the findings of your paper.

Russell Stothard (Editor-in-Chief), and the Editors will then assess the applications, and announce the prize-winning paper later in the year.