Congratulations to the winners of the Cephalalgia Award Lecture and the Jes Olesen Awards for the Advancement of Headache Medicine.

The Cephalalgia Award Lecture was awarded to Professor Arne May and his team for his research paper: Functional brainstem representations of the human trigeminal cervical complex. Cephalalgia 2023;43(5).

Read the paper here.

The Jes Olesen Awards for the Advancement of Headache Medicine have been established in 2025 and  offer two awards, one for a basic science paper, and one for a clinical paper. The inaugural award recipients were

Manvir Kaur for her team’s basic research paper: Sex differences in photophobic behaviors following cortical spreading depression in rats. Cephalalgia 2025;45(1). doi:10.1177/03331024241310550

Mi Ji Lee for her group’s clinical research paper: Subtype shift, relapse rate and risk factors of frequent relapse in cluster headache: A multicenter, prospective, longitudinal observation. Cephalalgia 2025;45(9). doi:10.1177/03331024251368259

Read Manvir’s paper here and Mi Ji’s paper here.

All three papers were presented during IHC 2025 in Sao Paulo – Congratulations to the presenters and their colleagues for their excellent research publications!