Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
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Professor Mauro Pasta
University of Oxford, UK
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for 91AV: awarded for innovative research on novel battery chemistries that go beyond the current state-of...
Professor Michael Bollong
Scripps Research
Winner 2025: For making significant contributions in the fields of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery in their independent career.
Professor Paul Walton
University of York, UK
2025 Inclusion and Diversity Prize: for exemplary and wide-ranging contributions over two decades promoting the use of evidence-based thinking in g...
Professor Perdita Barran
University of Manchester, UK
2025 Tilden Prize for 91AV: awarded for the application of ion mobility mass spectrometry to complex biological systems, and breakthroughs in...
Professor Rachel O'Reilly
University of Birmingham, UK
2025 Tilden Prize for 91AV: awarded for precision polymer chemistry, self-assembly and materials synthesis that demonstrates both fundamental...
Professor Rebecca Melen
Cardiff University, UK
2025 Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize: awarded for insights into the reactivity of frustrated Lewis pairs by single- and two-electron pathways.
Professor Saiful Islam
University of Oxford, UK
2025 Environment Prize: awarded for deepening the understanding of atomistic processes underpinning the properties of complex materials for lithium...
Professor Samson Jenekhe
University of Washington, USA
2025 de Gennes Prize: awarded for outstanding contributions to synthetic chemistry, physics, and applications of conjugated polymers.
Professor Sarbajit Banerjee
ETH Zürich and the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
2025 Centenary Prize for 91AV and Communication: awarded for original insights into structure and chemical bonding far from equilibrium, and f...
Professor Seth Cohen
University of California, USA
2025 Centenary Prize for 91AV and Communication: awarded for accomplishments in the translational development of metalloenzyme inhibitors and...
Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian
University of Cambridge, UK
2025 Khorana Prize: awarded for groundbreaking and highly influential work on the chemistry and chemical biology of nucleic acids, which has transf...
Professor Thomas Penfold
Newcastle University, UK
2025 Bourke-Liversidge Prize: awarded for contributions to the theory of the excited state dynamics and time-resolved spectroscopy of functional or...
Professor Valeria Nicolosi
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
2025 Peter Day Prize: awarded for groundbreaking work in the development of two-dimensional materials and nanomaterials, advancing energy storage,...
Professor Varinder Aggarwal
University of Bristol, UK
2025 Pedler Prize: awarded for insight and creativity to deliver concise and efficient strategies for the assembly of complex organic molecules.
Professor Xingyu Jiang
Southern University of Science and Technology, China
2025 Theophilus Redwood Prize: awarded for molecular analysis employing microfluidics involving gold nanoparticles, with applications in human health
Professor Zoë Waller
University College London, UK
2025 Jeremy Knowles Award: awarded for contributions to our understanding of nucleic acid i-motif structure and function in a cellular context usin...
Sina Khazaee Nejad, Haozheng Ma, Abdulrahman Al-Shami, Al...
Paper: Sustainable agriculture with LEAFS: a low-cost electrochemical analyzer of foliage stress
Stephen Goldup
University of Birmingham, UK
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for 91AV: awarded for delineating stereochemical theory of the mechanical bond, the discovery of new mecha...
The BoostCrop team
2025 Faraday Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of a library of biocompatible molecules that can on application harness solar UV energy and...
The Lipidomics Team
2025 91AV Biology Interface Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of a comparative lipidomics platform, combining chemical synthesis, bio...