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The European Society for Clinical Investigation (ESCI)

1.	The Society. The European Society for Clinical Investigation (ESCI) was founded February 12, 1967, as a pan-European Society of clinicians and scientists with a genuine interest in uncovering disease mechanisms. The term ‘clinical investigation’ is interpreted widely from bench-to-bedside and vice versa, including animal studies relevant to human health and disease.

2.	The objectives of the Society are the advancement of medical practice through biomedical science; the cultivation of clinical research by the methods of the natural sciences; the correlation of the science art and medicine; the fostering of high standards of ethical practice and investigation and the diffusion of a spirit of fraternity and international cooperation among and through its members. Unrestricted by national boundaries, the Society provides a forum for discussion, debate and interaction of colleagues to advance further the science of clinical investigation.

3.	Benefits. Members have access to important conferences and congresses held throughout Europe, and receive the European Journal of Clinical Investigation (EJCI) both in print and online. The monthly European Journal of Clinical Investigation (EJCI) publishes significant papers in the field of clinical investigation. The term 'clinical investigation' is interpreted widely to include biomedical research from bench-to-bedside and vice versa including animal studies of relevance to human health and disease. The current journal impact factor is: 2.847, as derived from the Journal Citation Report 2007.

4.	Europeism. The Society welcomes new members from Europe at large. For the new European countries, the Society offers special membership fees and travel grants for young scientists to attend the annual meeting. The Society plans new courses in biomedical investigation, etc. The goal is to be the leading clinical research Society across Europe.

5.	Awards. Every year, the European Society for Clinical Investigation (ESCI) makes an award to an outstanding young investigator (below the age of 45 years), who has made exceptional contributions to the understanding, diagnosis or treatment of human disease; a significant part of the research must have been performed in Europe (ESCI Award for Excellence in Biomedical Investigation). The prize of the 2009 award is 10,000 Euro. The recipient of the award delivers a plenary lecture during the Annual Scientific Meeting of ESCI and is asked to submit a review article to the European Journal of Clinical Investigation, summarising the work for which the award was given. As of 2010, the 10,000 Euro ESCI Award for Excellence in Biomedical Investigation will be awarded to two biomedical scientists, one for translational and one for clinical research.

Previous winners of the ESCI Award

6.	Links a.	Official website http://www.esci.eu.com/ b.	European Journal for Clinical Investigation http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/submit.asp?ref=0014-2972 c.	Blackwell Publishing http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ d.	Journal Citation Reports (ISI) http://admin-apps.isiknowledge.com/JCR/JCR?PointOfEntry=Home&SID=S25ckhGG5oH2ohfPiHF e.	Biomed Central http://www.biomedcentral.com/browse/journals/

7.	External Links a.	International Society of Internal Medicine http://www.acponline.org/isim/ i.	American College of Physicians http://www.acponline.org/ ii. Annals of Internal Medicine http://www.annals.org/ b.	 European Federation of Internal Medicine http://www.efim.org/index1.php?pageID=sommaire_accueil_public i.	Young Internists Website http://www.younginternists.efim.org/ ii. European Journal of Internal Medicine http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/620034/description#description                                  c.	Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI) http://www.jci.org/ d.	New England Journal of Medicine http://content.nejm.org/ e.	Science http://www.sciencemag.org/ f.	Nature http://www.nature.com/ g.	The Lancet http://www.thelancet.com/ h.	Harvard Medicine http://hms.harvard.edu/hms/home.asp i.	National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/ j.	Pubmed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/ k.	European Centre for Desease and Control (ECDC) http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/ l.	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development http://www.oecd.org/home/0,2987,en_2649_201185_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

8.	Recent Annual ESCI Meetings 2004, Utrecht, The Netherlands 2005, Athens, Greece 2006, Prague, Czech Republic 2007, Uppsala, Sweden 2008, Geneva, Switzerland 2009, Frankfurt, Germany

'''9.	Future Annual ESCI Meetings 24 – 27 February 2010, Bari, Italy'''

10.	Recent Presidents of ESCI 1999 – 2002, Lina Badimon (Barcelona, Spain) 2002 – 2005, Heinrich M. Schulte (Hamburg, Germany) 2005 – 2008, Joannes J.M. Marx (Utrecht, The Netherlands) 2008 – 2011, George P. Chrousos (Athens, Greece)