2027 E. K. Zavoisky Stipend Program
Deadline for Abstract Submission & Stipend Application:
The ISMRM invites applications for stipends through the E. K. Zavoisky Program, established to support scientists and clinicians residing in countries with R&D expenditure below US$250 per capita who do not have the financial means to attend the 2027 Annual Meeting. The program is named in honor of E. K. Zavoisky, a pioneer in MR research from the former USSR. Applicants who are first authors on a submitted abstract will be given priority. If an applicant has received more than two (2) E. K. Zavoisky stipends to date, the applicant must be the first author of an accepted abstract or case study to be eligible for any additional Zavoisky awards. Read more about E. K. Zavoisky in the sidebar.
Who Should Apply?
Scientists and clinicians who reside in countries with R&D expenditure below US$250 per capita and do not have the financial means to attend the 2027 Annual Meeting may apply. Applications for the E. K. Zavoisky Stipend Program are incorporated into the online abstract submission process.
2027 ISMRM membership is not required to apply. However, applicants whose abstracts are accepted will be required to become ISMRM members in order to receive their stipends. Acceptance notifications will be emailed to first authors in late February. If you are not currently a member and your abstract is accepted, you must complete the membership application process before receiving your stipend.
Recipients are required to attend at least five (5) days of the annual meeting.
Application Requirements:
Application for the E. K. Zavoisky Stipend program is incorporated into the online abstract submission process. It is mandatory that applicants complete the application on the ISMRM abstract submission website, which will require:
- ISMRM ID number;
- You must have an ISMRM.org account and customer ID number even if you are not yet a member.
- Supervisor’s name and contact information (institution and email address);
- Abstract (preference will be given to first authors);
- A copy of the electronic confirmation of your online abstract submission (available on the abstract submission site);
- A letter of application stating your intent and containing the name and contact information of your supervisor (including email address); and
- Your curriculum vitae.
E.K. Zavoisky Stipend Application Deadline:
28 October 2026 at 23:59 UTC
See your local time above.
For online abstract submission guidelines, click here.
For the online stipend application form, go to echo.ismrm.org.
Joseph J. H. Ackerman, Ph.D.
Chair, ISMRM Subcommittee on Trainee Stipends
2300 Clayton Road, Suite 620
Concord, CA 94520
Fax: +1 510-841-2340
zavoisky27@ismrm.org
About E. K. Zavoisky
E. K. Zavoisky, from Kazan, Tatarstan, is nowadays acknowledged as the inventor of electron spin resonance. There is also strong support for the thesis that he was the first to observe an NMR signal as early as 1941, but he could not detect the signal reproducibly with the very basic apparatus he was able to build with the limited means available to him.
Due to the political situation at that time, Zavoisky’s work remained largely unnoticed in the West. Although Zavoisky was unquestionably the first to observe spin resonance, the Nobel Prize Committee did not further consider his contribution due to the lack of follow-up papers and his move to other fields.
It is interesting to note that the C.V. of Zavoisky explicitly reports his first trip to an international conference (1961). There is little doubt that the history of spin resonance would be seen from a different perspective if Zavoisky had been able to pursue his work within the awareness of an international scientific community.
It seems, therefore, to be more than appropriate to name a program established to help scientists from around the world to communicate their achievements in the memory of E. K. Zavoisky.
