The Odile Bain Memorial Prize 2020 winners: Adnan Hodžić, Alicia Rojas, and Angela M. Ionică, (from left to right).

Since 2014, the Prize honours the late Odile Bain’s commitment to medical and veterinary parasitology and the spirit of collaboration she fostered among biologists, veterinarians, physicians, and fundamental and applied parasitologists around the world.

Odile的主要专业知识是丝状的系统学，filariae的载体和传播，丝虫病模型以及litomosoides sigmodontis鼠模型。作为博士Coralie Martin说, the ‘achievements are all owed to Odile’s ability to integrate classical zoology with high technology’, and today, they keep driving her colleagues ‘along the road to elimination of filarial infections as public health problems, while maintaining a fascination and curiosity for a unique group of animals’.

今年，获奖者是AdnanHodžić，审查的Uni Vienna的寄生虫学院，奥地利，Angela M.Ionică，农业科学大学和Cluj-Napoca，Romania和Romania和Alicia Rojas的Cluj-Napoca的兽医医学，兽医学院以色列耶路撒冷希伯来大学。Ionică博士和Rojas博士同样分享了2020年的奖项。

奥迪尔·贝恩（Odile Bain）是早期职业寄生虫学家的伟大支持者，该奖项旨在反映这一支持。该奖项与Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health联合授予Parasites & Vectors.

Some of Dr. Rojas’ achievements have been the description of Spirocerca vulpis, associated with red foxes, the characterization of the parasite’s secretome and the development of very sensitive molecular diagnostic techniques to detect this helminth in dog faeces.

“至理名言贝恩仍作为灵感许多女人n parasitologists, myself included”, Dr. Rojas told us. “She encourages me not only as the talented and curious researcher she was, but also as a woman who followed her career aspirations and excelled in them. Receiving this prize is a great honor and a very exciting way to start my own path in my home country, Costa Rica. In the哥斯达黎加大学，我被授予首席研究员职位，我打算在兽医和临床重要性的寄生虫中研究系统发育学和宿主病原体通信。”

Dr. Rojas completed her PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her studies on the biology of the dog parasiteSpirocerca lupihave been of great importance to the discipline.

相关性是对新型相关物种的描述，Spirocerca vulpis, associated with red foxes, the characterization of the parasite’s secretome and the development of very sensitive molecular diagnostic techniques to detect this helminth in dog faeces. Her extensive achievements during her PhD have led to a postdoctoral research position to study malaria at the Weizmann Institute of Science of Israel.

Dr. Ionică gained her PhD at the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca where she is currently researcher. She performed the first large scale surveys on canine filariases in Romania, including the first report ofCercopithifilariaspp. in Eastern Europe.

She contributed extensively also to several other studies on helminths of domestic and wild carnivores in Romania, particularly the first documentation of血管血管,A. chabaudi,A. daskalovi， 和troglostrongylusbrevior in the country. She also worked extensively on the epidemiology of canine vector-borne diseases in Mauritius, Kenya and Ivory Coast.

Ionică博士对罗马尼亚的犬丝虫进行了首次大规模调查，其中包括Cercopithifilaria spp的第一份报告。在东欧。

“For me, this prize is a great honour and my greatest achievement so far”, said Dr. Ionică. It represents the highest rank validation of the relevance of my projects. I was always passionate about helminthology, and, when I started my Ph.D. studies, I developed a strong admiration for Odile Bain and her work, and I thought to myself ‘she is the woman I would like to become’. I know it’s a long sea to cross, but I like to see this as one of the first steps in that direction. Although it’s impossible to predict what the future will bring, I hope to always remain connected to parasitic and vector-borne diseases, and further contribute to a deeper understanding of their ecology.

“It is a great honor and pleasure to receive the OBMP 2020”, said Dr. Hodžić, “and to be placed among the past honourees, all of whom made an outstanding contribution to the field of parasitology. Receiving such an important and prestigious international prize is a great motivation and incentive for my future research and it helps me to grapple with new scientific challenges with more confidence”.

Dr. Hodžić’s significant contributions include research on the “oriental eyeworm”Thelazia callipeda在巴尔干地区，野生动物中的人畜共患病和其他媒介传播寄生虫以及波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那的壁虱。

AdnanHodžić博士于2006年获得了萨拉热窝大学，波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那的兽医学位（DVM），并于2014年获得同一大学的兽医寄生虫学硕士学位。他从2006年到2014年。萨拉热窝兽医学院。2014年，他加入了奥地利维也纳兽医学院寄生虫学研究所，在那里他完成了博士学位研究（2018年）和EVPC居住计划（2019年）。他的研究主要集中在壁虱和tick虫疾病以及tick-host-Pathogen相互作用上。

Dr Hodžić and colleagues are now exploring the immune response to the oligosaccharide galactose-α-1,3-galactose (α-Gal) and its effect in protection against multiple infectious agents.

2021年奥迪尔·贝恩纪念奖的提名现已开放。请访问奖品网站有关如何提交提名的标准和指示。