Submission of nominations
Each research group may nominate one article for the award for best article published in 2025. The group leader sends a PDF of the article to Mina Minge (m.m.minge@medisin.uio.no), together with answers to the following questions (one sentence per answer).
- What was known before the study?
- What was discovered in the study?
- What is the significance of the results?
Email subject: “THS article competition 2026”.
Article requirements
- The article must be published in 2025 (online, print version, or preprint).
- The first author must be a master’s student, PhD candidate, postdoc, or temporary employed researcher.
- The first author must be/have been employed by or affiliated with the Department of Nutrition at the time the research was conducted.
- The article must be an original research article or a meta-analysis.
Presentation
The candidate must attend in person and present the article in English during the symposium (10 minutes including questions).
Awards for best article
The award for best article is given by an independent jury of three people appointed by the Throne Holst Foundation, and consists of:
- Research funding for the research group: NOK 100,000
- Personal award to the first author: NOK 10,000
Evaluation criteria
- Relevance to nutrition research.
- Originality.
- Scientific quality and methodological rigor.
- Publication in an international journal.
Research conducted at the Department of Nutrition includes many types of studies: cell studies, animal studies, clinical studies, epidemiological studies, and intervention studies. All study types will be evaluated equally. The jury should strive for some variation in winners across the department’s sections, and the same research group cannot win two years in a row.
AWARD CEREMONY: Awards are presented at the end of the symposium.