Past Recipients

Carlos Canez
Dr. Carlos Canez is a postdoctoral researcher in Liang Li’s group at the University of Alberta in Canada. He received the award for his conference contribution, ’Lipid CAT: An Open-Access, User-friendly Contaminant Annotation Tool for MS-Based Lipidomics Workflows’.
4th ILS Conference, October 28th – 31th 2025, Madrid, Spain

Yasmin Kadyrbekova
Yasmin Kadyrbekova is a PhD candidate in the Holčapek Mass Spectrometry Group at the University of Pardubice in the Czech Republic. She won the award for her conference contribution, ‘Quantitative Analysis of Monohydroxy Sterols and Vitamin E in Human Plasma Combining Derivatization and RP-UHPLC/MS/MS in Negative Ion Mode’ homepage
Michal’s group: https://holcapek.upce.cz/
4th ILS Conference, October 28th – 31th 2025, Madrid, Spain

Johanna Schubarth
Johanna Schubarth is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics at Leipzig University in Germany. She received the award for her conference contribution, ‘Detection Limits of Oxidized Bulk Phospholipids in Biological Samples Using Conventional Matrices and 1-Pyrenebutyric Hydrazide in MALDI-TOF MS’.
4th ILS Conference, October 28th – 31th 2025, Madrid, Spain

Xiaoyue Huang
Xiaoyue Huang is a PhD candidate from Metabolomics and Analytics Center, Leiden Academic Center for Drug Research, Leiden University, the Netherlands. She won the award for the conference contribution "Live single-cell mass spectrometry to study the metabolic mechanisms behind triple-negative breast cancer cell migration".
3rd ILS Society Conference and SMART Symposium on Structural Lipidomics
3rd ILS Conference, October 24th – 27th 2024, Shenzhen, China

Vannuruswamy Garikapati
Vannuruswamy Garikapati is a Research Associate in Andrej Shevchenko's group at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany. He received the award for his outstanding conference contribution titled "Membrane Lipids Turnover by Full Organism 15N Metabolic Labeling and Shotgun Ultra-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry".
3rd ILS Society Conference and SMART Symposium on Structural Lipidomics
3rd ILS Conference, October 24th – 27th 2024, Shenzhen, China

Kevin Huynh
Kevin Huynh is group leader in the metabolomics laboratory at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne, Australia. He won the award for his conference contribution "Identifying and Addressing Technical Challenges in Alignment of Plasma Lipidomic Datasets Across Platforms and Clinical Studies".
Toward Functional Lipidomics: Structure Elucidation, Quantification, Data Integration and Clinical Translation
Gordon Research Conference, May 5th – 10th 2024, Lucca, Italy