AIAA Winners 2019

February 10, 2020

SPAEN Advocacy in Action Award 2019: Winners announced

For the third time SPAEN was calling again for submission of outstanding projects and initiatives for our SPAEN Advocacy in Action Award 2019. We received 12 submissions from 10 member organisations from 5 countries, so this shows the motivation among members to present their projects.

These are the winners of the Advocacy in Action Award 2019:

1. Desmoid Foundation Italy for “A bridge for Desmoid Tumor: physicians and patients share knowledge, fears, emotions and troubles to understand better the different point of view of this pathology”

2. Friends of Max, India, for "Chai for cancer"
2. Sarcoma UK for "The Accidental Activist"

3. The Bone Cancer Research Trust (BCRT) for the "Bone Cancer Conference"

A huge thank you to your fantastic jury and to all groups who entered submissions:

  1. India: Friends of Max - Chai for cancer
  2. India: V Care - Squash a mile
  3. "Italy: Desmoid Foundation Italy - “A bridge for Desmoid Tumor: physicians and patients share knowledge, fears, emotions and troubles to understand better the different point of view of this pathology”
  4. Italy: Orchestra per la Vita - Epithelioid Sarcoma Project - TRANSLATIONAL Study
  5. "Italy: Orchestra per la Vita - Epithelioid Sarcoma Project - Comparative Assessment of Antitumor Effects and Autophagy Induction as a Resistance Mechanism by Cytotoxics and EZH2 Inhibition in INI1-Negative Epithelioid Sarcoma Patient-Derived Xenograft"
  6. Italy: Trust Paola Gonzato-Rete Sarcoma Onlus - INFOSARCOMA
  7. Italy: A.I.G. Associazione Italia GIST Onlus - NATIONAL GIST CONFERENCE, “20 years after Imatinib”
  8. "Spain: Fundacion Mari Paz Jimenez Casado - 2019 Program of the FMPJC Scholarships/Aid for Training and Research in Sarcomas"
  9. Switzerland: Swiss Sarcoma - Development of a vaccine to prevent relapse in liposarcoma
  10. UK: BCRT - Bone cancer conference
  11. UK: BCRT - ICONIC
  12. UK: Sarcoma UK - The Accidental Activist