IBIS Marcel Simon Award
Awarded every two years for excellence in the
research of genetic hemochromatosis

Marcel Simon was Head of the Diabetology Unit and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Rennes University, France. Very proud of his Briton roots and endowed with a marked sense of humour, he got interested very early in hemochromatosis, as his MD thesis was entitled "Heredity of Idiopathic Hemochromatosis". He soon became a pioneer in the genetics of hemochromatosis, in 1975 by showing the close linkage of the disease to the HLA system on chromosome 6, and in 1977 by demonstrating its recessive mode of inheritance. This opened the way to efficient family screenings. His premature death in 1988, aged 53, was a great loss for the Iron Field. It is to pay tribute to his major contributions and attractive personality that the Marcel Simon Prize was created, and is awarded for excellence in the research of genetic hemochromatosis, at the IBIS meeting every two years.

The Marcel Simon Award is funded by
"The Margrit Krikker, M.D. Endowment Fund".

2009 Awardees (for research regarding the role of BMP-6 in Iron Homeostasis)
Jodie Babitt, MD
Marie-Paule Roth, MD

2007 Awardee (for animal models of hemochromatosis)
Nancy Andrews, MP, PhD

2005 Awardees (for the discovery of hepcidin)
Sophie Vaulont, MD, PhD
Tomas Ganz, MD, PhD
Oliver Loreal, MD, PhD

2003 Awardee (for the study of non-HFE hemochromatosis)
Clara Camaschella, MD

2001 Awardee (for the study of HFE biology)
Robert E. Fleming, MD

1999 Awardee (for the characterization of HFE structure and interactions)
Jose A. Lebron, PhD

1997 Awardee (for the identification of HFE)
John N. Feder, PhD

1995 Awardee (for the studies on the pathogenesis of hemochromatosis)
Antonello Pietrangelo, MD

1993 Awardee (for the studies on protein for intestinal iron-uptake)
Wolfgang Stremmel, MD

1991 Awardees (for the studies on clinical aspects of Hemochromatosis)
Lawrie Powell, MD, PhD
June Halliday, PhD

1989 Awardee (for the studies on Iron toxicity)
Bruce R. Bacon, MD