Université Laval
ARThritis Research Center

ARThrite Awards

The ARThrite research center has several prizes and honors to award its students' achievements.

This prize is awarded to students, postdocs or residents affiliated to the ARThrite research center that had a manuscript published in a peer-reviewed journal, and archived on PubMed.

Amount: 500$

Admissibility criteria

  • Two or more authors are researchers affiliated to ARThrite
  • The ARThrite research center must be acknowledged
  • The student is first or co-first author
  • May be claimed up to 2 years after graduating
  • The application must include:
    • A 300-word text depicting the impact of the study on the current knowledge on rheumatic diseases
    • The publication or the accepted version of the manuscript (in this case, include the acceptation letter)
    • Two 250 character (spaces included) lay summaries, in French and/or English for external communication purposes

This prize is awarded to students, postdocs or residents affiliated to the ARThrite research center for presenting his/her research project during the Zoom sur l'ARThrite webinars. Two prizes will be awarded - the first for the period going from January to June and the second, from July to December.

Amount: 300$

Admissibility criteria

  • Being included in a research team run by a researcher affiliated to ARThrite (co-supervision are also eligible)
  • Having prevented a talk during the six-month period considered
  • ≥ 75% assiduity to the Zoom sur l'ARThrite webinars for the six-month period considered
  • Being an active member of the audience (e.g., asking questions to the speakers)
  • This prize can only be awarded once every year to a student.

This prize is awarded to students, postdocs, or residents affiliated to the ARThrite research center for presenting his/her data to a congress about arthritis and/or rheumatic diseases. The event may be provincial, national, or international. The presentation may either be oral or a poster.

Amount: 300$ - 500$ - at the discretion of the Board, after evaluating each application by the end of the fiscal year.

Admissibility criteria

  • The student is the first author of the abstract
  • The ARThrite research center must be acknowledged
  • The application must include:
    • The abstract submitted and accepted for presentation at the event
    • Mention of the type of presentation
    • Miscellaneous information about the event (e.g., name, location)
  • This prize can only be awarded once every year to a student