The NCHIV Board will select the highest scoring abstract submitted by a junior researcher to be awarded the Joep Lange & Jacqueline van Tongeren Junior Investigator’s Award. To be considered for the award, authors must be in the process of gaining or have recently gained their PhD. In addition, the abstract must relate to work carried out during their PhD trajectory.The winning abstract author will receive a prize to a maximum of €1000 to be spent within one year of NCHIV24 to be used to support physical or online attendance of a scientific conference or research-related meeting of choice. Prize money may be spent on conference-related travel, accommodation and/ or registration.