Awards and Honors
David J. Grignon Education Award
In commemoration of Dr. Grignon (1955-2020) we are inaugurating the Grignon Education Award in 2023 to stimulate education in urologic pathology worldwide. Nominations are needed by December of the preceding year for the award to be given the following March.
Award Criteria:
- Leadership: the personal commitment and vision of the nominee to create and implement an educational program in the field of urological pathology.
- Scope and scale of educational activities: demonstration of longstanding contributions of the nominee to the education of trainees, medical practitioners and others including the public.
- Innovation: the use of novel approaches to education such as interactive and web-based learning and teaching models for low and middle income countries.
- Recognition: The local, national, and international acknowledgements of the nominee for educational activities.
A sponsor must submit a nomination letter outlining the contributions of the nominee accompanied by a minimum of two (2) additional letters of support. The endorsement should relate to more than one of the above criteria. The sponsor must be a pathologist who is a member of ISUP, but the letters of support may be from non-members who are in the medical field. Self-nomination by an ISUP member would be allowed, but would still require a minimum of two (2) letters of support.
The committee comprises Drs. John Srigley, Eva Comperat, Sean Williamson, and Sunny (Chia-Sui) Kao.
Nominations should be sent to Dr. John.Srigley@thp.ca and decision on an awardee will be in January.
2026-
2025- Tamara Lotan
2024- Michelle S. Hirsch
2023- Mahul Amin
Koss Medal Awards for Advancement of Urological Pathology
The Koss Medal is named in honor of Leopold G Koss, late Chairman and Professor of Pathology at University Hospital of the Albert Einstein College, New York, USA. He was a major figure in the formation of the International Society of Urological Pathology and served as Founder President.
Award criteria:
The medal is awarded for a lifetime achievement in the broad field of urological pathology and is the highest award bestowed by the Society.
The committee comprises current President who serves as chair of the selection committee. Additional members are: (Immediate) Past-President, President-Elect, Secretary, Treasurer.
All ISUP members may recommend or nominate candidates to the committee chair. The committee will review nominations and decide the winner (nominees must agree to be considered.) Each nomination should include the candidate’s biosketch and full CV +/- letter of support.
Nominations should be sent to: info@isupweb.net.
2026-
2025- Holger Moch
2024- Bogdan A. Czerniak
2020- Isabell A. Sesterhenn
2019- Jae Y. Ro
2017- Theodorus van der Kwast, Stephan Störkel
2016- David J Grignon
2015- Guido Martignoni
2014- Thomas M. Ulbright
2013- Antonio Cubilla
2012- Rodolfo Montironi, Victor Reuter
2011- Gregor Mikuz, John R. Srigley, Robert (Robin) H. Young
2010- Alberto Ayala
2008- Lars Egevad
2005- Helen Michael
2004- Liang Cheng
2003- Christer Busch, Brett Delahunt, John N. Eble, Jonathan I Epstein, F. Kash Mostofi, Ronald S Weinstein
Grawitz Medal
The Grawitz Medal is named in honor of Paul Albert Grawitz, who was Assistant to Virchow at the Pathology Institute in Berlin and later Professor of Pathology at the University of Greifswald, Germany. He was responsible for much of the debate regarding the pathogenesis of renal cell carcinoma and is eponymously associated with that tumor.
Award criteria:
The medal is awarded to members of the International Society of Urological Pathology for meritorious service relating to the work of the Society and/or to urological pathology in general.
The committee comprises Gladell Paner who serves as chair of the selection committee. Additional members are: Liang Cheng (USA), Michelle Downes (Canada), Kenneth Iczkowski (USA), Maria Raspollini (Italy), John Srigley (Canada), Toyonori Tsuzuki (Japan).
All ISUP members may recommend or nominate candidates to the committee chair. The committee will review nominations and decide the winner (nominees must agree to be considered.) Each nomination should include the candidate’s biosketch and full CV +/- letter of support.
Nominations should be sent to: info@isupweb.net.
2026–
2023- Theodorus van der Kwast
2022- Hemamali Samaratunga , Lars Egevad
2017- Robert H. Young
2016- Isabell Sesterhenn
2014- Samson Fine
2013- David G. Bostwick, John N. Eble, Jonathan I. Epstein, Brett Delahunt, John R. Srigley, Cristina Magi-Galluzzi, Kiril Trpkov , Kenneth Iczkowski
Jubilee Lectureship
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Society, the Jubilee Lectureship was established to fund the awarded lecturer to give 3 traveling presentations in the name of the Society. The first award was presented at the ISUP Companion Meeting at the USCAP 2017 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
2042-
2017- David J Grignon
The International Society of Urologic Pathology Stipends are awarded annually to outstanding trainees in Pathology with demonstrated interest in Urologic Pathology. Three (3) awards are currently granted each year and are utilized by recipients to either attend a national/international meeting with a Urologic Pathology focus or towards travel to study with an expert(s) in Urologic Pathology at another institution.
Award criteria:
Must be an outstanding trainee in pathology with a demonstrated interest in the field of Urologic Pathology.
The Stipend committee is currently chaired by Steve C. Smith (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA). The other committee members are: Professor Trevor Flood (University of Ottawa, Canada), Professor Arndt Hartmann (Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Germany), Professor Chisato Ohe, (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan), Professor Puay Hoon Tan (Luma Medical Center, Singapore).
The committee was chaired by Liang Cheng from 2006-2008, Samson Fine from 2008-2018 and Maria Tretiakova from 2018-2022.
The application cycle begins on or around October 15th, with awards announced before year’s end.
Applications should be sent to: isupstipendaward@gmail.com.
2026- Garrett Chan, Ngoc-Nhu Jennifer Nguyen, Richard Pacheco, Dong Ren, Douglas Wu
2025- Sofia Canete Portillo, Burak Tekin, Kara Tanaka
2024- Dilara Akbulut , Fanni Santa , Ting Zhao
2023- Rose Sneha George, Joao Pedro da Silava Machado Lobo, Swati Bhardwaj
2022- Robert Humble, Rayan Rammal, Calim Gurbuz Begüm, Maiara Ferreira Souza
2021- Not awarded due to COVID
2020- Anne Offerman, Alessia Cimadamore, Taneja Kanika, Andrea Olivas
2019- Sarah Mhaolcatha, Kristyna Pivovarcikova Charles, Xiaotun Zhang, Jianping Zhao
2018- Andres Acosta, Rongbin Ge, Yuri Tolkach, Lisha Wang
2017- Anna Calio , Julien Dagher, Faruk Skenderi, Tong Sun
2016- Martin Magers, Previn Gulavita, Rola Saleeb, Sounak Gupta
2015- Martin Braun, Kuo-Cheng (David) Huang, Carmen Perrino, Aaron Udager
2014- Francesca Khani, Andrew McDaniel, Enrico Munari
2013- Sara Falzarano, Gang Wang, Kyung Park
2012- Diego Segala, Dominique Trudel, Oleksandr Kryvenko
2011- Steven Smith, Sean R. Williamson, Hongying Huang
2010- Maria Tretiakova, Max (Xiangtian) Kong, Li Yan Khor
2009- Rohit Mehra, Stefano Gobbo, Stephen Rohan
2008- Huihui Ye, Núria Juanpere-Rodero, Katharina Biermann
2007- Tatjana Antic, Timothy D. Jones, Carlos A. Torres-Cabala
The International Society of Urologic Pathology (ISUP) Excellence in Urologic Pathology Award are awarded annually to residents or fellows for the five (5) best abstracts at the USCAP meeting.
Award criteria:
Must have accepted abstract at the annual USCAP meeting in the category of Genitourinary Pathology to be considered for these awards.
The committee is currently chaired by Ken Iczkowski (UC Davis, USA). The other committee members are Sara Wobker (UNC, USA), Katrina Collins (University of Indiana, USA), Felix Bremmer (Goettingen, Germany) and Alessia Cimadamore (Udine, Italy). The committee was chaired by Kenneth Iczkowski 2002-2012, from 2013-2018 by Adeboye Osunkoya followed by Debra Zynger (2019-2022).
There is no application required. All eligible USCAP abstracts will be reviewed by the committee.
2026- Darrell Christopher Martin, Guannan Zhang, Sabry Tawfik Soliman Hussein, Priscilla Louise Natcher, Ting Zhao
2025- Priti Agarwal, Basahr Aldaraiseh, Michael McCarthy, Kazuki Kioga
2024- Alaaeddin Alrohaibani, Pranav Renavikar, Minqi Xu
2023- Yaileen Guzman-Arocho, Kotaro Takeda, Swati Bhardwaj
2022- Numbereye Numbere, Jatin S. Gandhi, Mohammed A. Alghamdi
2021- Not awarded due to COVID
2020- Eman Abdulfatah, John Kennedy, Shikhar Vyas
2019- Mohamed Alhamar, Liwei Jia, Xiaotun Zhang
2018- Shuhua Ma, Rola Saleeb, Xiaotun Zhang
2017- Sounak Gupta, Aseeb Rehman, Aylin Sar
2016- Benjamin Buelow, Vipulkumar Dadhania, Sara Falzarano
2015- Nooshin K. Dashti, Andrew McDaniel, Qinghu Ren
2014- Max X. Kong, Carmen M. Perrino, Steven C. Smith
2013- Grzegorz T Gurda, Vadim Khachaturov, Pawel A Mroz
2012- Whitney M. Green, Vikas Mehta , Haijun Zhou
2011- Jennifer Bup-Jong Kum, Scott Tomlins, Carla L. Ellis
2010- Rugvedita Satayajeet Parakh, Charles J Sailey, Beatriz Wealter Rodriquez
2009 – Rohit Mehra, Ian Bovio, Debra L Zynger
2008- Andrew B. Armstrong, Bora Gurel, Priya Nigwekar
2007- Timothy D. Jones, Juan Miguel Mosquera, Olga Pozdnyakova
2006- Leilei Chen, Rohit Mehra, Nikolay D Dimov, Debra L Zynger
2005- Metin Punar, Timothy D Jones, Gladell P Paner
2002- A. M. Chinnaiyan, Pei Hui, S. E. Mendrinos