History of the PR meeting

History of the Progress Report Meetings

Progress Report Meeting is organized by Finnish Cardiac Society to present opportunity for young investigators to report results of their studies. An important point is also training in presenting scientific papers to criticism of senior colleagues.

Boehringer Ingelheim has supported organizing the meeting from the beginning, 1975 by helping in practical matters and presenting grants to the best of speakers.

Winners of the Boehringer Ingelheim grants

*From year 2007 onwards the competition has had two categories (basic science and clinical reaserch) instead of 1st and 2nd prize. In 2021 rules were changed so that upon the decision of the judges, the categories can be combined (if less than three eligible abstracts have been received to either category); both categories will have 1st place or there will be 1st and 2nd place when categories are combined.

Year	1st Prize	2nd Prize
1975	Erkki Pesonen	--
1976	Heikki Karppanen	Markku S. Nieminen
1977	Matti Halinen	Ulla Korhonen
1978	Ilkka Torstila	Markku S. Nieminen
1979	Olli Meretoja	Aila Rissanen
1980	Jorma Viikari	Jouko Jalonen
1981	Markku Kupari	Irma Koivula
1982	Heikki Huikuri	Markku Kupari
1983	Seppo Hietakorpi	Kari Niemelä
1984	Markku Laakso	Heikki Huikuri
1985	Jukka Räisänen	Kari Niemelä
1986	Pekka Koskinen	Juha Mustonen
1987	Kimmo Mattila	Silja Majahalme
1988	Heikki Tikkanen	Paula Rämö
1989	Hannu Näveri	Keijo Peuhkurinen
1990	Markku Mäkijärvi	Juhani Valkama
1991	Eero Mervaala	Paavo Uusimaa
1992	Eero Mervaala	Anne Remes
1993	Juha Hartikainen	Helena Kovanen
1994	Kai Kiilavuori	Juha Perkiömäki
1995	Sirkku Pikkujämsä	Pasi Tavi
1996	Jorma Kokkonen	Timo Mäkikallio
1997	Pekka Raatikainen	Marja Laitinen
1998	Marja Laitinen	Antti Ylitalo, 3rd Prize Timo Mäkikallio
1999	Mika Laine	Timo Mäkikallio
2000	Saila Vikman	Antti Kivelä
2001	Jari Tapanainen	Pertti Jääskeläinen
2002	Tuomas Rissanen	Markku Pentikäinen
2003	Juhani Junttila	Markus Leskinen
2004	Jere Paavola	Tuomas Rissanen
2005	Mikko Mäyränpää	Satu Helske
2006	Olli Tenhunen	Johan Lassus
Year	Basic Science category	Clinical Research category
2007	Satu Helske	Ville Kytö
2008	Mirella Hietaniemi	Minna Kylmälä
2009	Johanna Lähteenvuo o.s. Markkanen	Annukka Marjamaa
2010	1st Prize Jani Tikkanen 2nd Prize Riina Kandolin	the categories were combined
2011	Markku Lähteenvuo	Aapo Aro
2012	1st Prize Kirsi Kujala 2nd Prize Maija Bry	the categories were combined
2013	Suvi Syväranta	Toni Grönberg
2014	1st Prize Leena Kaikkonen 2nd Prize Heli Tolppanen	the categories were combined
2015	1st Prize Aissa Bah 1st Prize Markus Räsänen	the categories were combined
2016	1st Prize Heli Tolppanen 1st Prize Kaj Ekström	the categories were combined
2017	Tarja Alakoski	Samuli Jaakkola
2018	Maija Ruuth	Tero Penttilä
2019	Annakaisa Tirronen	Anette Haukilahti
2020	1st Prize Tiia Istolahti 1st Prize Henna Korpela 2nd Prize Vilbert Sikorski	the categories were combined
2021	1st Prize Aleksi Leikas 2nd Prize Minna Koivunen	the categories were combined
2022	1st Prize Markus Ritvos 2nd Prize Kristiina Harju	the categories were combined
2023	1st Prize Anne Doedens 2nd Prize Valtteri Muroke	the categories were combined
2024	1st Prize Marko Taipale 2nd Prize Lauri Äikäs	the categories were combined