The award is for the best oral paper presented by trainees who are members of the Society at the ‘Calne-Williams Medal paper session’ during the British Transplantation Society Annual Congress. The work must be in the field of liver transplantation.

Candidates for the prize must be members of the Society prior to abstract submission, and under the age of 40 on the first day of the Annual Congress for which the prize is being considered.

The work must be presented by the candidate and must be original and innovative and have been performed largely or entirely within the United Kingdom. The candidate must have contributed significantly to the work. Submission must be made with the consent of all co-authors who, in doing so, provide confirmation that the rules of the submission have been fulfilled.

Candidates for the prize will be limited to the first author of the submitted paper. In the rare event that the first author cannot present the paper, it must be withdrawn from the competition although the work may be presented by another author in another section of the meeting.

Persons wishing to be considered for the prize must indicate this in their abstract submission.