Keep an eye out for your speciality’s top oral communication and poster presentation to see outstanding new research relevant to you. The Oral and Poster prizes at the SfE BES Conference are sponsored by:

• The Society for Endocrinology
• The Clinical Endocrinology Journal Foundation
• The Association for Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Disorders (AMEND)
• The British Thyroid Association (BTA)
• The Thyroid Eye Disease Charitable Trust (TEDct)

One prize will be awarded for the Best Oral Communication and one for the Best Poster within each of the following SfE BES 2026 Conference streams:

• Adrenal and Cardiovascular
• Bone and Calcium
• Endocrine Cancer and Late Effects
• Metabolism, Obesity and Diabetes
• Neuroendocrinology and Pituitary
• Reproductive Endocrinology
• Thyroid

In order to support upcoming talent, these oral and poster prizes are only open to early career endocrinologists. The prizes will be given to the listed presenting author of the winning abstracts only.

The Best Poster in each category will be chosen from the Poster Orals presented in subject-specific Poster Oral sessions during the Conference. These have already been shortlisted as the top-scoring posters in each of the Conference streams.

Best Oral and Best Poster prize winners will receive £300 and £200 respectively.

There will also be an additional prize for the overall Best Oral Communication and overall Best Poster at SfE BES 2026.

Selected posters will also be reviewed by members of the Society for Endocrinology’s Committees during SfE BES 2026. The top-scoring of these will be labelled as a Highly Commended Poster and will receive a certificate following the Conference.

This Clinical Cases Poster Prize is supported by the Society for Endocrinology in association with Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Case Reports (EDMCR). The winner will be awarded £200 and will be entitled to publish their case free of charge in the open-access resource EDM Case Reports*, which publishes insightful case reports in all areas of clinical endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism (standard publication charge £800). 

The top 10 Featured Clinical Case Posters will be reviewed during the Conference and the winner determined. 

*The winning case report will be subject to the normal peer review process; therefore, ultimate publication cannot be guaranteed. 

The Society for Endocrinology will present these two prizes in memory of Mari Green. They are awarded to the best submitted abstracts on the topic of adrenal cancer and on a teaching subject, respectively, and will be awarded £200 each.

The Society for Endocrinology will present this prize in the memory of Matthew Forman. It is awarded to the Early Career individual presenting the best research or teaching abstract on the subject of rare and aggressive pituitary tumours at the Conference, and is worth £400.

The Clinical Endocrinology Journal Foundation is awarding three prizes for the best abstracts in the following categories.

• Best Basic Science Abstract
• Best Clinical Abstract
• Best Nursing Practice Abstract

These prizes will receive £500, £500 and £250 respectively. The Best Clinical and Best Basic abstracts will be presented in the Emerging Researcher Lectures and Plenary Orals session on Tuesday 11 March (08:30-09:30).

Sponsored by Addison’s Disease Self-Help Group

The Addison’s Disease Self-Help Group will present the Annette Louise Seal Memorial Award, with a prize of £500 for the abstract which best advances the clinical management of steroid replacement therapy or adrenal insufficiency, where the first author is a nurse. Abstracts may cover any aspect of adrenal crisis prevention and treatment, the management and monitoring of steroid replacement therapy or associated patient education.

Sponsored by Thyroid Eye Disease Charitable Trust

The Thyroid Eye Disease Charitable Trust will present this prize to the highest scoring poster on the topic of thyroid eye disease. The winner will be awarded £150.