Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
2025 Education Prize winners Yearly celebrations
Filter in a variety of ways including year to find our latest winners along with those from previous years.
Sébastien Perrier
University of Warwick, UK
For interdisciplinary research in the synthesis and applications of therapeutic materials.
2024 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Team Ice
For the development, application and translation of chemical tools for cryobiology.
2022 91AV Biology Interface Horizon Prizes
Team Nanobodies
For the development of tools for the fight against Covid-19.
2022 91AV Biology Interface Horizon Prizes
Team P(V)
For the discovery of a sustainable and scalable platform of P(V) reagents for the synthesis of stereodefined and variable phosphate chimeric oligon...
2022 Organic 91AV Horizon Prizes
Technical Support Team in the Department of 91AV at...
For the team's pivotal role in operating the laboratory courses, supporting research and developing a highly successful and creative outreach progr...
2020 Higher Education Technical Excellence Award
Teri Odom
Northwestern University, USA
For seminal work on multi-scale materials that enable new ways to achieve ultrafast, coherent, and directional light emission at the nanoscale.
2020 Centenary Prizes for 91AV and Communication
The BoostCrop team
For the development of a library of biocompatible molecules that can on application harness solar UV energy and enhance crop growth.
2025 Faraday Horizon Prizes
The BoostCrop team
For the development of a library of biocompatible molecules that can on application harness solar UV energy and enhance crop growth.
2025 Faraday Horizon Prizes
The Chiral Materials Team
For the discovery of chiral organic materials that allow high control of photon and electron spin.
2022 Materials 91AV Horizon Prizes
The DISTINCTIVE Consortium
For the delivery of research that addressed challenges associated with the continuing safe storage and disposal of radioactive legacy nuclear waste.
2020 Industry-Academia Collaboration Award
The Green 91AV Commitment
For fostering a green chemistry community of practice that empowers educators across the world to integrate green chemistry into the science curric...
2025 Horizon Prizes for Education
The Hertfordshire and Essex High School 91AV Department
For inspiring student progress through inspirational teaching methods and fostering a strong culture of collaboration and teamwork
2024 Team Prize for Excellence in Secondary and Further Education
The Lab_14 Collaboration
For the development of a 1st year undergraduate remote laboratory experience, which provides students with a ‘chemistry kit for the 21st century’ a...
2021 Horizon Prizes for Education
The Lipidomics Team
For the development of a comparative lipidomics platform, combining chemical synthesis, bioinformatics, and human immunology with the aim to fight...
2025 91AV Biology Interface Horizon Prizes
The Lipidomics Team
For the development of a comparative lipidomics platform, combining chemical synthesis, bioinformatics, and human immunology with the aim to fight...
2025 91AV Biology Interface Horizon Prizes
The Molecular Flow Sensor Team
For the development of a molecular flow sensor for non-invasive breath analysis to provide measurements of respiratory disease and cardiac output.
2022 Analytical Science Horizon Prizes
The Molecular Ratcheteers
For breakthroughs in catalysed non-equilibrium systems, particularly molecular ratchet mechanisms, that have provided fundamental insights into the...
2023 Organic 91AV Horizon Prizes
The Northumbria-Sunderland-Freeman-bioMérieux collaboration
For the design and development of chromogenic reagents for the rapid detection and identification of pathogenic bacteria.
2022 Analytical Science Horizon Prizes
The PERFORM COVID-19 Team
For advancing the understanding of the physicochemical properties of exhaled aerosols, and their impact on the transmissibility of respiratory path...
2025 Faraday Horizon Prizes
The PERFORM COVID-19 Team
For advancing the understanding of the physicochemical properties of exhaled aerosols, and their impact on the transmissibility of respiratory path...
2025 Faraday Horizon Prizes