Call for Applications for the Young Investigator Awards | The 85th Annual Meeting of the Japan Radiological Society

1st Prize: Certificate, JPY 150,000 prize, and complimentary registration for the next Annual Meeting.
2nd Prize: Certificate, JPY 100,000 prize, and complimentary registration for the next Annual Meeting.
3rd Prize: Certificate, JPY 50,000 prize, and complimentary registration for the next Annual Meeting.
Finalists: Complimentary registration for the next Annual Meeting.

Be the first author of a General Research Presentation on a topic related to radiology.
The submitted research must not have received an award at any domestic conference in Japan at the time of abstract submission.
The first author must be under 40 years of age as of April 2, 2026.
As of April 16, 2026, be a regular member of the Japan Radiological Society (JRS), a medical resident, a medical student or recent graduate, or an international student affiliated with a research institution in Japan.
Have paid JRS membership fees up to the fiscal year 2025 (not applicable to medical residents, medical students, and international students).
If selected as a finalist, be able to attend and deliver an oral presentation on Friday, April 17, 2026.

Select “Apply for Young Investigator Awards” during the online submission process for General Research Presentations.
Authors who pass the first-round review will be required to submit a separate, more detailed abstract for the second-round review.
Applicants may apply for multiple awards if the eligibility criteria for each are met.

First-round Review: Reviewers will score the submitted abstracts. The top-scoring abstracts among those accepted for presentation will be selected to advance to the second round.
Second-round Review: The selection committee will evaluate the abstracts submitted for the second round and select approximately six finalists.
Final Review: Finalists will deliver an oral presentation during the Awards Session at the Annual Meeting. The final winners will be determined based on the scores from the final review committee (composed of 3 peer reviewers and 3 publicly recruited reviewers).

Scoring will be based on predetermined criteria. Adjustments may be made to correct for inter-reviewer variability if necessary.
Abstracts selected for the final review will not be presented in other oral presentation sessions (i.e., the presentation will be given only once during the Awards Session).
If a candidate is selected as a finalist for more than one award, the nomination for the higher-ranking award will take precedence. An individual cannot win multiple awards for the same presentation.

First-round Application Period: Same as the General Abstract Submission period.
Second-round Abstract Submission Opens: Wednesday, November 18. (First authors of abstracts selected in the first round will receive an invitation to the second round.)
Second-round Abstract Submission Deadline: Monday, December 1. (Please note the short submission window; this deadline is strictly enforced.)
[Content for Second-round Abstract (English only)]
1. Presentation number, Title
2. Main text (structured as Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion; max. 1,000 words)
3. The following are optional and are not included in the word count: Figures (max. 4, including legends), Tables (max. 4), and References (max. 30).
Announcement of Finalists: Thursday, December 19.
Final Review Oral Presentations: Friday, April 17, 2026.
Award Ceremony: During the Award Ceremony session.

Submission of more than one abstract by the same author is permitted.
For exceptionally high-quality abstracts, the organizing committee may recommend that the author submit a second-round abstract to be considered for an award.
Duplicate publication is permissible under certain conditions. Please refer to the “Duplicate Submission Policy” on the JRS website for details.