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2026 winners announcement Yearly celebrations
Celebrating our 2026 Prize winners
Thank you to everybody who took the time to make a nomination this year, and to all of our volunteers on our judging panels. Explore our prize winners to find profiles, see photo galleries, get insights into their work, and read a question and answer session with the prize winner.
Research & Innovation Prize winners
Celebrating exceptional people advancing the chemical sciences across industry and academia.
Horizon Prize winners
Celebrating groups, teams and collaborations making discoveries and innovations that push the boundaries of science.
Inclusion and Diversity Prize winner
Recognising individuals or teams that have improved the accessibility, inclusivity and diversity of the chemical science community.
Volunteer Recognition Prize winners
Celebrating our members who support and inspire others within the community.
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Filter in a variety of ways including year to find our latest winners along with those from previous years.
Dr Maria Chiara Arno
University of Birmingham, UK
For her outstanding contributions in advancing the understanding of material-cell interactions.
2023 Felix Franks Biotechnology Medal
Dr Mark Crimmin
Imperial College London, UK
For the discovery of an unprecedented transition metal complex with a hexagonal planar geometry.
2020 Chemistry of Transition Metals Award
Dr Matthew Grayson
University of Bath, UK
For enabling rational organic reactivity design through the use and development of computational methods.
2023 Organic Chemistry early career prize: Hickinbottom Prize
Dr Matthew Jenner
University of Warwick, UK
For his internationally leading research into the discovery and biosynthesis of natural products through application of innovative mass spectrometr...
2024 Felix Franks Biotechnology Medal
Dr Mattia Silvi
University of Nottingham, UK
For the development of creative synthetic strategies through the design of novel radical acceptors.
2025 Organic Chemistry early career prize: Hickinbottom Prize
Dr Maxie Roessler
Imperial College London, UK
For the development of advanced electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy to investigate, structurally define and exploit catalysis by che...
2024 Analytical Science early career prize: Joseph Black Prize
Dr Michael Cowley
University of Edinburgh, UK
For advances in reactivity of and catalysis of aluminium compounds.
2022 Dalton mid-career prize: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize
Dr Mike Foulkes
University of Plymouth, UK
For long-standing service to the 欧美AV Analytical Division and the sustained promotion of analytical chemistry, particularly atomic spectroscopy.
2020 Anne Bennett Memorial Award for Distinguished Service
Dr Muthiah Manoharan
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, United States
For pioneering discoveries in nucleic acid chemistry and for contributions to human health through the discoveries of RNA-based medicines.
2026 Chemistry Biology Interface open prize: Khorana Prize
Dr M茅lanie Roffet-Salque
University of Bristol, UK
For the development and application of biomolecular and isotope techniques to organic residues preserved in archaeological and historical artefacts.
2026 Analytical Science mid-career Prize
Dr Nathan Davison
University of Birmingham, UK
For significant advances in organolithium and organosodium chemistry, including the first solvent-free Birch reduction, and the isolation of monome...
2025 Dalton Emerging Researcher Prize
Dr Nicholas Chilton
University of Manchester, UK
For contributions in applying experimental and advanced computational methods to understand the magnetic and electronic properties of molecules.
2021 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for Chemistry
Dr Nicholle Bell
University of Edinburgh, UK
For innovations in high-resolution NMR spectroscopy and mass-spectrometry methods applied to the understanding of global carbon embedded in complex...
2024 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Early Career Prize
Dr Nicola Gasparini
Imperial College London, UK
For understanding charge recombination processes in organic and perovskite semiconductors for high performance photovoltaic and photodetector devices.
2024 Materials Chemistry Early Career Prize
Dr Niloufar Raeis-Hosseini
Cranfield University
For providing an inspirational chemistry education and using teaching technology to ignite students’ interest in chemistry beyond the classroom.
2023 Early Career Prize for Excellence in Higher Education
Dr Nuria Tapia-Ruiz
Imperial College London, UK
For new earth-abundant materials chemistry and mechanistic insight, providing design rules for sustainable sodium-ion batteries with higher energy...
2026 Environment, Sustainability and Energy mid-career Prize
Dr Paul McGonigal
Durham University, UK
For innovative studies of dynamic processes in organic functional materials.
2022 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for Chemistry
Dr Pietro Sormanni
University of Cambridge, UK
For pioneering the development of computational methods for antibody design and optimisation, enabling transformative advances in biomedical resear...
2025 Chemistry Biology Interface early career prize: Norman Heatley Award
Dr Pola Goldberg
University of Birmingham and Institute of Healthcare Technologies
For unconventional lithographic structuring of applied materials and advanced nanoplatforms for optical spectroscopy.
2021 Beilby Medal and Prize
Dr Radha Boya
University of Manchester, UK
For contributions to creating Angstrom-scale atomically smooth capillaries from two-dimensional materials and unravelling the properties of fluids...
2020 Faraday early career Prize: Marlow Prize
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