The "http://www.sctransplant.org/indexcat.html" Catalan Transplantation Society and the "http://www.ramc.cat/" Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia have awarded Dr. Gonzalo Sapisochin, researcher of the Digestive Transplants Group at Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), with the prize to the Best Article about Transplants 2014, for the study "Single HCC in cirrhotic patients: liver resection or liver transplantation? Long-term outcome according to an intention-to-treat basis", published in the "http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22965574" Annals of Surgical Oncology in April 2013. The VHIR researchers, lead by Dr. Ramon Charco as the Group Head, conducted a retrospective study with ten years follow-up of more than 200 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma treated at the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital between 1997 and 2007. The aim of the study was to determine, for the first time, which of the two treatments made in these patients had the best long-term results according to the treatment intention: the liver transplant or the liver resection. With the results obtained, the researchers concluded that the liver resection is the most recommended treatment for patients in the earliest stages of liver cancer, with a tumor equal or smaller than two centimeters, while the liver transplant is the best treatment option for patients in the early stages, with a tumor equal or smaller that five centimeters, if and when they meet the other requirements to be transplanted. The prize is endowed with 2.000€ and the Academic Correspondent Title of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia. The award ceremony will take place on May 6th.