The MICCAI STudent-Author Registration (STAR) Awards, previously known as Student Travel Awards, serve two main functions:

1. To honor the best (such as highest scoring) first author students and (starting 2024) young scientists and to subsidize their attendance to the present their work at the annual MICCAI conference.

2. To assist in building the MICCAI community by selecting early career participants from countries of lower-income countries from where fewer papers are received and the authors are typically not well funded to attend international meetings.

The definition of and guidelines for this award can be found here.