David J. Grignon Education Award
In commemoration of Dr. Grignon (1955-2020) we are inaugurating test 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
| 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 Foundation President. The medal is awarded for a lifetime achievement in the broad field of urological pathology and is the highest award bestowed by the Society.
| 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 |
Recipients of the 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. 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.
| 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.
| 2017 | David J Grignon |
ISUP Stipend Award
The Stipend committee is currently chaired by Steven C. Smith, MD (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA). The other committee members are Trevor Flood (University of Ottawa, Canada) and Arndt Hartmann (Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany). The International Society of Urologic Pathology (ISUP) 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. The application cycle begins on or around October 15th, with awards announced before year’s-end. The committee was chaired by Liang Cheng from 2006-2008 , then Samson Fine from 2008-2018 and Maria Tretiakova from 2018-2022.
| 2024 | Dikara Akbulut | |
| Fanni Santa | ||
| Ting Zhao | ||
| 2023 | Rose Sneha George | Albany |
| Joao Pedro da Silava Machado Lobo | Portugal | |
| Swati Bhardwaj | Mt Sinai | |
| 2022 | Robert Humble | USA |
| Rayan Rammal | USA | |
| Calim Gurbuz Begüm | Turkey | |
| Maiara Ferreira Souza | Brazil | |
| 2021 | Not awarded due to COVID | |
| 2020 | Anne Offerman | University, Hospital Schleswig Holstein, Germany |
| Alessiani Cimadamore | Polytechnic University of the Marche Region, Italy | |
| Taneja Kanika | Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, USA | |
| Andrea Olivas | University of Chicago, USA | |
| 2019 | Sarah Mhaolcatha | Cork University Hospital, Ireland |
| Kristyna Pivovarcikova | Charles University Hospital, Czech Republic | |
| Xiaotun Zhang | Mayo Clinic Rochester | |
| Jianping Zhao | University of Texas Medical Branch | |
| 2017-2018 | Andres Acosta | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Rongbin Ge | University of Massachusetts | |
| Yuri Tolkach | University Hospital of Bonn, Germany | |
| Lisha Wang | University of Michigan | |
| 2016-2017 | Anna Calio | University of Verona, Italy |
| Julien Dagher | Rennes University Med School, France | |
| Faruk Skenderi | University of Sarajevo Medical Center, Bosnia &Herzegovina | |
| Tong Sun | University of Massachusetts | |
| 2015-2016 | Martin Magers | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
| Previn Gulavita | Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, MA | |
| Rola Saleeb | University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada | |
| Sounak Gupta | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN | |
| 2014-2015 | Martin Braun | University Hospital Bonn, Germany |
| Kuo-Cheng (David) Huang | University of Calgary | |
| Carmen Perrino | Washington University St. Louis | |
| Aaron Udager | University of Michigan | |
| 2013-2014 | Francesca Khani | Cornell University Medical Center–NYPH |
| Andrew McDaniel | University of Michigan | |
| Enrico Munari | University of Verona, Italy | |
| 2012-2013 | Sara Falzarano | Cleveland Clinic Foundation |
| Gang Wang | University Hospitals Case Medical Center | |
| Kyung Park | Cornell University Medical Center–NYPH | |
| 2011-2012 | Diego Segala | University of Verona, Italy |
| Dominique Trudel | University Health Network-Toronto General Hospital | |
| Oleksandr Kryvenko | Henry Ford Hospital | |
| 2010-2011 | Steven Smith | University of Michigan |
| Sean Williamson | Indiana University | |
| Hongying Huang | New York University | |
| 2009-2010 | Maria Tretiakova | University of Chicago |
| Max (Xiangtian) Kong | New York University | |
| Li Yan Khor | University Hospitals Case Medical Center | |
| 2008-2009 | Rohit Mehra | University of Michigan |
| Stefano Gobbo | University of Verona, Italy | |
| Stephen Rohan | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | |
| 2007-2008 | Huihui Ye | New York University New York, NY |
| Núria Juanpere-Rodero | Hospital del Mar Barcelona, Spain | |
| Katharina Biermann | Universitaetsklinikum Bonn Bonn, Germany | |
| 2006-2007 | Tatjana Antic | Loyola University Medical Center Maywood, IL |
| Timothy D. Jones | Indiana University School of Medicine Indianapolis, IN | |
| Carlos A. Torres-Cabala | NIH/NCI Laboratory of Pathology Bethesda, MD |
ISUP Excellence in Urologic Pathology Award
The International Society of Urologic Pathology (ISUP) Excellence in Urologic Pathology Award are awarded annually to residents or fellows for the three best abstracts at the USCAP meeting. The committee is currently chaired by Debra Zynger (Ohio State University, USA). The other committee members are Chin Lee Wu (Harvard University, USA) and Matteo Brunelli (University of Verona, Italy). The committee was chaired by Kenneth Iczkowski 2002-2012 and from 2013-2018 by Adeboye Osunkoya.
| 2024 | Alaaeddin Alrohaibani | Emory University School of Medicine |
| Pranav Renavikar | University of Nebraska Medical Center | |
| Minqi Xu | Queen’s University, Kingston | |
| 2023 | Yaileen Guzman-Arocho | Brigham and Women’s Hospital/ Harvard |
| Kotaro Takeda | University of Pittsburgh | |
| Swati Bhardwaj | Mt. Sinai | |
| 2022 | Numbereye Numbere, MBBS | University of Rochester |
| Jatin S. Gandhi, M.D. | University of Washington | |
| Mohammed A. Alghamdi, M.D. | Memorial Sloan Kettering | |
| 2021 | >Not awarded due to COVID | |
| 2020 | Eman Abdulfatah | University of Michigan |
| John Kennedy | Memorial Sloan Kettering | |
| Shikhar Vyas | ||
| 2019 | Mohamed Alhamar | Henry Ford Hospital |
| Liwei Jia | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | |
| Xiaotun Zhang | Mayo Clinic Rochester | |
| 2018 | Shuhua Ma | University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX |
| Rola Saleeb | University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada | |
| Xiaotun Zhang | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN | |
| 2017 | Sounak Gupta | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN |
| Aseeb Rehman | Albany Medical College, Albany, NY | |
| Aylin Sar | University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada | |
| 2016 | Benjamin Buelow | University of California, San Fransisco, San Francisco, CA |
| Vipulkumar Dadhania | University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA | |
| Sara Falzarano | Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH | |
| 2015 | Nooshin K. Dashti | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN |
| Andrew McDaniel | University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI | |
| Qinghu Ren | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY | |
| 2014 | Max X. Kong | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY |
| Carmen M. Perrino | Washington University St. Louis, St. Louis, MO | |
| Steven C. Smith | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, LA | |
| 2013 | Grzegorz T Gurda | Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD |
| Vadim Khachaturov | Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY | |
| Pawel A Mroz | Northwestern University, Chicago, IL | |
| 2012 | Whitney M. Green | Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD |
| Vikas Mehta | Loyola University Med Center, Maywood, IL | |
| Haijun Zhou | Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX | |
| 2011 | Jennifer Bup-Jong Kum | Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN |
| Scott Tomlins | Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI | |
| Carla L. Ellis | Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD | |
| 2010 | Rugvedita Satayajeet Parakh |
Ceders-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA |
| Charles J Sailey | University of Maryland Med Center, Baltimore, MD | |
| Beatriz Wealter Rodriquez | NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD | |
| 2009 | Rohit Mehra | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
| Ian Bovio | University of Florida, Gainesville, FL | |
| Debra L Zynger | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| 2008 | Andrew B. Armstrong, M.D. | |
| Bora Gurel | ||
| Priya Nigwekar |
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| 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 | ||
| 2004 | – | |
| 2003 | – | |
| 2002 | A. M. Chinnaiyan | |
| Pei Hui | ||
| S. E. Mendrinos |